We analyzed 100+ conversations and essays on positive futures to find out
other futures: tech, resistance & imagining otherwise
big tech wants to control our future, but there are other paths we can choose instead. on "other futures" we bring together leading tech researchers, organizers, critics, and storytellers to help us imagine what more liberatory and human-centered tech futures could look like—and how we can build them together. brought to you by DAIR and the All Tomorrows Institute.
On technological optimism and technological pragmatism
"There are no guarantees that things are going to turn out very well for anyone.”
FF26 – This is not the tech I signed up for! – An approach to permacomputing - Darío Gutiérrez Mori
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...
Publications
(Re)envisioning and creating just and sustainable futures for information technologies.
Technology without Industry
A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway
Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What if artificial intelligence isn'
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.
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026
Keynote by Robin Berjon The current state of tech can feel disheartening. Years of critical analysis and reform efforts have left us with a digital sphere that seems worse than ever. In Europe, our...
Calm Technology
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster
responding with slowness in relations
From Space, to Time
This post is the text version of a talk I’ve been giving at several conferences (and I plan to give it a couple more times). I have spent many years observing and building things on the web and this is one of the main trends I’ve been…
If AI is normal technology, history is not reassuring. — LessWrong
There’s a truism that technology is good - even if it creates winners and losers, it improves the world. Toby Ord argues that the conclusions about t…
The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
