Future Tense
A Z MackayPattern recognition from the edge of what's possible. Weekly essays on how technology rewrites being human.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 206 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 24 days ago |
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Break the Machine
In April, Gallup published a statistic that should have made AI executives feel less like winners on the adoption curve. Among Americans aged 14 to 29, the share saying AI made them feel excited fell from 36 per cent in 2025 to 22 per cent...
Research Notes: Break the Machine
In April, someone fired at least a dozen shots into the home of an Indianapolis city councillor and left a note on the doorstep reading ‘No Data Centers’.
In April, someone fired at least a dozen shots into the home of an Indianapolis city...
Conscience as Line Item
AI companies have learned that morality can be market infrastructure. Governments have noticed.
A supply-chain-risk designation sounds like something from a warehouse inspection report. Bad firmware in a router. A pallet of screws that doe...
Research Notes
The first phrase that felt too small for the fight was “supply chain risk.” That is warehouse language, vendor language, language you expect around bad firmware or an unreliable subcontractor.
The first phrase that felt too small for the f...
The Vacuum Bubble
The real energy source is belief.
Casimir Inc. did not announce a better battery. That would have been too ordinary, too trapped in the old humiliations of chemistry: degradation, replacement, charging cycles, mining, cost. Better batterie...
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I spent decades building systems. Now I write about what they're building in us. Speculative tech anthropology for the fiction-minded.
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