This article was constructed using the app Design Fiction (a provisional name), an AI-assisted suite of “applied futurism” tools currently under development by Headcanon. It’s a record of a conversation with the app’s Applied Futurist persona. More about the Design Fiction app after the article. What will a typical day look like in the future when our lives are supported and even managed by AI? As an applied futurist, I…

For me, the experience of this past year and a half has been a paradoxical laminate of trauma and renewal. We can’t always tell that we’re being traumatized when we’re in the thick of it. It’s only in retrospect that we can see the contours of suffering. But perhaps the…

To be precise, you tried to buy an NFT on Ethereum in an open market. There's a lot more to this than that. Different formats, costs, and experiences possible on other platforms like NEAR and Tezos. Not to mention Flow Blockchain and collectibles by Dapper Labs. The quality of work should be unsurprising. Unless you expected to find all of the art or even most of it to be high quality, which doesn't happen in any form, medium, or marketplace.

Our aim is to support the move to online conferences, with globally available publication repositories for the widest range of media types–aligned with our mission to enable the free flow of information, knowledge, and culture worldwide. As we witness the wave of cancellations of vital gatherings and conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our publishing and media commerce service, Publica, has decided to offer our service free of charge to

I’ve been working on something since the start of 2020 that I’m happy to go public with now. Delighted and excited to announce that I’m now heading up U.S. Strategy and Business Development for a remarkable publishing and media commerce service called Publica. Born in Buenos Aires and global in…

I remember getting my first laptop, a Macintosh Portable, around 1990 maybe? I took it out to Long Island one weekend to show my father, an inquisitive, self-educated man who worked with his hands and back, how I was redefining literature. Yes, that’s how I thought about what I was…

Did you know Eugene? Manhattan, ’78, ’79. Tall guy, bald on top even though he couldn’t have been thirty, with sort of a handlebar mustache, knife-edge crease in his slacks, check shirt, and a sport jacket with gold buttons no doubt fifty bucks but looking sharp at Robert Hall. Sweet…

I confess I’m puzzled by one reported outcome of the recent two-day session in New York aimed at defining, and maybe even laying the groundwork for a perfect, dream bookstore. Organizer (and friend) Chris Kubica set out with a strong agenda and the group included true luminaries, and so hopes…