Image depicts an anthropomorphic computer with a face and multiple arms; the machine is typing and pushing buttons on a control panel. The image was published in Artzy …
Computer Plant Life
"Thе Commodore РЕТ offers you а safe passage through the primeval swamр of computerization," says the ad copy accompanying this uncredited illustration in a June 1981 issue of Personal Computer World: That image and ad copy offers a perfect example of how most retro tech illustration works: Visualize the hell
Anthropic experiments with real-time UI generation on Claude
What do we know so far? "Imagine with Claude" will be released as a temporary demo for certain plans (only Max?). Users will be interacting with a classic desktop UI where windows and apps are managed by the AI itself.
To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future | Quanta Magazine
A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.
Meaning after an AI eucatastrophe
Imagining this possible future illuminates meaning here and now as well.
Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing
Posted on Monday 13 Oct 2025. 698 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.
The future is low-tech: lessons from the early 2000s ft. Jésabel DC | Config 2026
The future is low-tech: lessons from the early 2000s ft. Jésabel DC | Config 2026
Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research (Published 2018)
He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works.
The brain in the machine: How AI could help explain how we think | IBM
Scientists are using large AI models to predict patterns of brain activity at scale, a development that researchers say is pushing neuroscience toward a new kind of digital imaging.
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible
On working machines
In part one, on thinking machines, I explored two facets of the philosophy of artificial intelligence: “intelligence”, and consciousness. That left an important topic to consider for this post: the...
Adrian Z. · Human Interface Designer
Designer working at the intersection of art, design, and AI.
Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly…
Reticulum Network
For the better part of a generation, we have been taught to visualize the digital world through the lens of hierarchy. The mental maps we carry are dominated by a single, misleading image: The Cloud.