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100 years of whatever this will be
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
What’s the best technology that doesn’t exist yet?
We analyzed 100+ conversations and essays on positive futures to find out
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
Silicon Valley, disruption, and the end of uncertainty
This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘d...
Technology without Industry
A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway
Ali Alkhatib: On techno-optimism
I’ve got a longer draft in the works, but I don’t think that’s going to become a blog post, so I figure it might be useful to publish something here and solicit feedback, or just plant a flag in the ground that this was a thing I did. Last week Several weeks ago I gave a talk at Wayne State University titled “the uncanny pessimism of techno-optimism”. In this post I’m going to breeze through some of the stuff I talked about and give a sense of what’ll be coming. Eventually.
Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center
Once an obscure job title, creative technology is becoming a new way of working, and a core capability inside modern product teams. Soon…
On technological optimism and technological pragmatism
"There are no guarantees that things are going to turn out very well for anyone.”
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
Speculations on the Future of the Scientific Method
The following essay was published 20 years ago (January, 2006) on my blog The Technium. I edited the intro here, but the speculations are basically unchanged.
Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling
Speculative programmatic tool calling is a class of techniques for overlapping tool call computation with the code being generated by a harness.
Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub
Zurich has created a technology ecosystem nearing the density of Silicon Valley.
Technological Metamodernism | Hilma Church-Turing | Substack
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