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11 November 2026
…gnises our hesitations. It reminds us of what we have forgotten, then suggests what we might have thought. It arrives through glasses, through headphones, through the objects we carry. It accompanies our movements and enters our conversations. The world begins to reach us with an…
2 October 2026
…ia and Al-Jazari to Vaucanson’s eighteenth-century machines, makers have simulated life without thought. Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. gave us the word “robot” in 1920 and imagined a revolt. Turing asked in 1950 whether machines can think; the 1956 Dartmouth meeting named the fie…
26 September 2026
…has already happened: we have just imagined 12026. For a few moments, our present grew larger. We thought about someone who might live millennia after we have disappeared.When I imagined 2067, Email to the Future, I asked how to get a message to someone living fifty years from no…
25 September 2026
…ives rise to another question. The change is subtle, but it pertains to a decisive moment: when a thought begins to take shape. Language can act like a virus, if we understand that it reproduces in the host by borrowing its resources. It does not merely transmit content. It insta…
21 September 2026
…Each square is alive or dead. At every generation, it consults eight neighbours. Nothing more. A thought experiment that became a legend John Horton Conway devised Life in Cambridge at the end of the 1960s, in the wake of John von Neumann’s cellular automata. Martin Gardner in…
20 September 2026
…ms changes how a community is understood. The printed object creates neighbourhoods of ideas: its thought also lies in what it places next to what. What layout does to thought An original Catalog page is not a sequence of presentation slides. Columns, differently sized pictures,…
16 September 2026
…cally, models calculate distributions and produce forms. Politically, they occupy the language of thought to make their power appear natural. The first struggle is therefore to strip machines of the words in which they dress themselves. I retain above all the book’s political c…
10 September 2026
…ute wealth, wage war, monitor individuals and construct representations of the world.A segment of thought turned into rulesComputers imply code, and before code comes an initial process: the algorithm. An algorithm extends far beyond the computer. It is an ordered description of…