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 | 202 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Vacuum Bubble
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 batteries belong to the world as we already...
Research Notes for The Vacuum Bubble
I began with a question that felt almost too neat.
I began with a question that felt almost too neat. What happens when a company claims it can turn the quantum vacuum into a commercial power source, and the claim arrives dressed like norm...
The Living Pharmacy
Researchers gave bacteria a job, watched them do it, and watched them leave over time when dosing stopped. The job was happening inside a living gut. The exit was part of the therapeutic claim. In a Cell paper published in April 2026, scien...
Research Notes
What does it mean to take a medicine that is alive?
What does it mean to take a medicine that is alive? Not metaphorically alive. Actually alive, metabolizing, responding, and sitting inside a microbial community that already has its own p...
Three Doors to Forever
Longevity is the polite name for an old wish, more life, but not just more years at the frail end. The version now attracting money and attention is about extending healthy years. Less dementia. Less cancer. More time before the body become...
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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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