Reveries
Reveries is about technology and its impact on media. Think AI, VR, neurotechnology and the things that they will make possible. It’s somewhere between research, analysis and speculation.
Threads
This is still new, and the exact direction isn’t clear yet. To get a feel for the vibe, here are some emerging threads.
Media enables hyperstition, and we can deliberately use it to influence the future. Science fiction has a job to do. Looking back, we can see how fiction helped bring technologies into existence. But hyperstition works for good and bad futures — our aesthetic ideologies matter because they are self-fulfilling. What is the relationship between AI and hyperstition, and how can we use it to influence the future?
AI enables new ways to think, and new ways to create. What are they? Usually, new tools create new markets by bringing in new customers that the old tools couldn’t reach. New tools also create new mediums, and AI will be no different. Generative models represent possibility space, so what tools and what mediums does that unlock?
