Weird Futures Lab

A meta-space tracking Ribbonfarm's own experimental community events and speculative explorations of how emerging technologies, urban environments, and new media forms reshape collective reality and social normalcy.

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2024-10-10 Ribbonfarm is Retiring
2024-06-05 Bangalore Meetup Report
2024-04-16 The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
2024-04-12 Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
2024-03-14 Protocol Entrepreneurship
2024-02-21 Four Modes of BDFxing
2024-02-02 Thoughts on XMTP
2024-01-31 Lego Soup
2024-01-23 Can Robots Whittle?
2024-01-09 Does AI Have Buddha Nature?
2023-12-28 2023 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2023-12-21 Charnel Vision
2023-11-02 The Future of the Blogosphere
2023-10-23 Vastness
2023-06-14 Hello Again, Seattle
2023-03-09 Summer of Protocols
2022-12-29 2022 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2022-11-17 The Art of Gig Books
2022-09-22 Tangle Logic
2022-09-08 September 2022 Blog Update
2022-07-28 Tubeworld
2022-04-28 Elderblog Sutra: 13
2022-04-21 The Ribbonfarm Lab
2022-01-20 Animation Sublimation
2021-12-29 2021 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2021-11-09 Jumping into Web3
2021-03-11 Elderblog Sutra: 12
2021-02-11 MJD 59,256
2021-01-25 Domestic Cozy: 13
2021-01-06 Boilerplate Advice
2020-12-31 2020 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2020-11-10 MJD 59,163
2020-10-23 MJD 59,145
2020-10-04 Mansionism 2: Bungalows
2020-08-26 The Stack: A Love/Hate Story
2020-07-30 Elderblog Sutra: 11
2020-06-25 Mansionism 1: Building-Milieu Fit
2020-06-09 A Spectre Is Haunting The West
2020-06-04 MJD 59,004
2020-05-21 New E-Book, and a Portfolio Update
2020-04-28 Alamut, Bosch, Gaddis: Introduction to Epochal Art
2020-04-23 Quarantine Art
2020-04-14 Liminality?...Well, there's a free sample!
2020-04-12 Now Reading: Pandemic Edition
2020-04-07 Pandemic Dashboard: 3
2020-04-02 Pandemic Dashboard: 2
2020-04-01 Scorpio Season: A New Talk Show
2020-03-23 Pandemic Dashboard: 1
2020-03-18 Domestic Cozy: 12
2020-02-13 Domestic Cozy: 11
2020-01-24 How To See Voids
2020-01-03 MJD 58,851
2019-12-31 Complete 2019 Roundup
2019-12-16 Domestic Cozy: 10
2019-12-13 Disassembling the Empathy Machine
2019-12-10 Making Meaning
2019-12-06 The Ovaltine Moment
2019-12-03 Automontage
2019-11-25 Elderblog Sutra: 10
2019-11-19 The Other Simulation Hypothesis
2019-11-15 The Galactic Numerology Collision
2019-11-12 AI And Human Digitization: When Seeing Is Not Believing?
2019-11-08 Spatial Intelligence: Architecture as a Giant Computer
2019-11-05 From Pseudoevents to Pseudorealities
2019-11-01 Plannar -- Co-Visioning with AR
2019-10-29 The City as Weakly-Escaped Reality
2019-10-25 Introducing Xenoreaction
2019-10-22 Value Investing in Cults and Religions
2019-10-18 Escape' Reality Presents - A Timeshare Opportunity
2019-10-15 Observability and Time
2019-10-11 PermaPunk - Visionary Non/Fictions
2019-10-08 Becoming the Internet
2019-09-25 Elderblog Sutra: 9
2019-09-11 Predictable Identities: 17 - Midpoint Review
2019-08-16 Multitemporality: 1
2019-07-16 Mediocratopia: 6
2019-07-11 Pleasure as an Organizing Principle
2019-07-09 Elderblog Sutra: 7
2019-07-04 Semi-Annual 2019 Roundup
2019-06-27 Regenerations
2019-06-20 Reflections on Refactor Camp 2019
2019-06-13 Refactor Camp Livestream This Weekend
2019-05-20 Domestic Cozy: 5
2019-05-09 A New Newsletter: The Art of Gig
2019-04-23 Elderblog Sutra: 6
2019-04-22 Infinite Machines: 3 -- Turking Interfaces
2019-04-08 Weirding Diary: 7
2019-04-04 Escaping Reality: Refactor Camp 2019, Los Angeles, June 15-16
2019-03-21 Constructions in Magical Thinking
2019-03-18 Elderblog Sutra: 5
2019-03-12 Refactorings Roundup: 1/28/19 - 3/10/19
2019-02-21 Worlding Raga: 1
2019-02-19 Elderblog Sutra: 4
2019-02-18 Weirding Diary: 4
2019-02-14 Breaking Smart Season 1 Online Workshop
2019-02-08 Mediocratopia: 1
2019-02-05 Elderblog Sutra: 2
2019-02-04 Weirding Diary: 3
2019-01-31 Elderblog Sutra: 1
2019-01-28 Refactorings Roundup: 12/09/18 - 1/28/19
2019-01-24 Weirding Diary: 1
2019-01-03 Happy 2019
2018-12-26 Complete 2018 Roundup
2018-12-12 Refactorings Roundup 11/13/18 - 12/08/18
2018-11-14 Refactorings Roundup 10/07/18 -- 11/12/18
2018-10-25 The Speakeasy Imagineering Network
2018-10-16 Seattle Drinks-and-Waterfront-Walk Meetup, Friday 19th
2018-10-11 Pack Experience
2018-10-09 Refactorings Roundup 09/16/18 -- 10/06/18
2018-09-16 Refactorings Roundup 09/02/2018 -- 09/15/18
2018-09-13 London Visit Next Week, Three Events
2018-09-02 Refactorings Roundup 08/26/2018 09/1/2018
2018-08-26 Refactorings Roundup 08/19/2018 - 8/25/2018
2018-08-20 Feed Fox Links: 8/12/18 -- 8/18/18
2018-08-16 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Post-Mortem
2018-07-10 Into the Fediverse
2018-07-03 Semi-Annual Roundup, 2018
2018-05-17 Refactor Camp: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Summary and Wrap Up
2018-05-12 Refactor Camp 2018 Livestream
2018-05-03 The Art of Longform
2018-03-08 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding
2018-02-20 2018 Annual Letter
2018-01-30 The Elephant in the Brain
2017-12-21 Complete 2017 Roundup
2017-09-28 The Internet of Electron Microscopes
2017-08-31 The Rust Age: A Four-Volume Collection
2017-07-20 The Ominouslier Roar of the Bitcoin Wave
2017-07-13 Crash Early, Crash Often
2017-06-29 Semi-Annual Roundup 2017
2017-06-13 Ten Years of Refactoring
2017-05-30 Y Tribenator
2017-04-25 One Weird Longform Trick...on the Blockchain!
2016-12-30 Complete 2016 Roundup
2016-11-01 Ribbonfarm Longform Blogging Course: Nov 10 - 22
2016-10-18 Can the European Union Break Smart?
2016-10-11 Radical Candor
2016-08-11 Trace of the Weirding
2016-07-25 Weird Crowds, Weird Planet
2016-07-20 The Weird State of Capitalism
2016-07-16 The Weird State of the State
2016-07-07 The Systems of the World
2016-07-05 Refactor Camp 2016: Weird Political Economy
2016-03-08 Berliners #10: Pie-Carving
2016-02-09 Berliners #9: The Scent of a Yak
2016-02-02 Podcasts with Longform and Farnam Street
2016-01-26 Berliners #8: Red String
2016-01-19 Berliners #7: Organic, Free-Range Chicken and Egg
2016-01-14 Berliners #6: Purgatorinomics
2015-12-23 Complete 2015 Roundup
2015-10-27 The Berliners #3: Sparring Session
2015-10-15 Climate Change Op-Ed
2015-10-13 The Berliners #1
2015-09-08 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region 2015
2015-09-01 Breaking Smart Afternoon Workshop, and Evening Meetup, London, Sept 11
2015-08-06 Frontierland
2015-07-28 Breaking Smart
2015-07-14 New Horizons
2015-05-01 Roundup: January - April 2015
2015-04-08 The Essence of Peopling
2015-02-25 The Mother of All 2x2s
2015-02-24 Colin Dickey: Tempo Shifts
2015-02-02 Refactor Camp 2015: Narrative
2014-12-22 Complete 2014 Roundup
2014-07-23 Structure Follows Context
2014-07-17 How Different Cultures Understand Time
2014-07-16 Close Encounters of the Missing Kind
2014-07-02 Roundup: January - June 2014
2014-06-12 Everyone is Special
2014-05-29 Artistic Forestry: 2014 Annual Letter
2014-01-15 Resident Bloggers for 2014: Sam, Jordan, Kartik, Keith
2014-01-15 Refactor Camp 2014: Computing and Culture
2013-12-23 Complete 2013 Roundup
2013-11-25 The New Human Wilderness
2013-11-19 Deep Play: An Impressionistic Theory of Innovation
2013-11-07 UX and the Civilizing Process
2013-09-25 Rough Books for Roughening School
2013-09-18 Freedom in Smooth Space
2013-08-28 Roundup, May-August 2013, September in Bay Area, Sponsorship Update
2013-07-25 The Networked Narrative
2013-06-11 New York City Meetup on Wednesday, 12th June
2013-05-23 Civilization and the War on Entropy
2013-05-09 Roundup, January-April 2013
2013-04-25 Branches and Roots: 2013 Call for Sponsorships
2013-03-27 The Wave of Unknowing
2013-03-26 Allowing Personality to Flow
2013-03-11 Tempo Interview on 'Smart People Podcast'
2013-02-28 Binoculars versus Cameras
2013-02-28 The National Day of Unplugging
2013-02-15 Adventures in Amateur Talking-Headery
2013-02-13 Resilient Like a Fox
2013-02-05 Machine Cities and Ghost Cities
2013-01-28 Jailbreaking the City: Announcing Refactor Camp 2013
2013-01-11 Refactorings Extended: Please Welcome Mike, Drew and Kevin
2012-12-30 Roundup of 2012 Tempoblog Posts
2012-12-19 Complete 2012 Roundup
2012-12-14 The Ultimate Lifestyle Planning Guide and Map
2012-11-23 Talk on Kool Aid, VUCA Discussion, Tuesday Nov 27 at USC (Los Angeles)
2012-11-14 Jason Ho on Cultivating a Jiu-Jitsu Mindset
2012-10-31 Deskless in Seattle, Future of Data Survey
2012-10-23 Navigating the Holey Plane
2012-09-27 Cloud Mouse, Metro Mouse
2012-08-23 Waste, Creativity and Godwin's Corollary for Technology
2012-08-16 Realtechnik, Nausea and Technological Longing
2012-07-31 The Guerilla Guide to Social Business
2012-07-10 My New Book Project, Upcoming Talks in Los Angeles and Malmö, Sweden
2012-07-03 Five Years of Blogging
2012-06-20 The Mysteries of Money
2012-06-13 Getting Ahead, Getting Along, Getting Away
2012-06-05 Towards an Appreciative View of Technology
2012-05-31 The Art of Refactored Perception
2012-05-24 Roundup: January - May 2012
2012-05-17 Discussion Note: Sartre's Nausea vs. Future Nausea
2012-05-09 Welcome to the Future Nauseous
2012-04-25 Go Deep, Young Man: 2012 Call for Sponsorships
2012-03-26 The Tempo of Code
2012-03-14 Reviewing Refactor Camp 2012
2012-03-01 The Second Most Important Archetype in your Life
2012-02-13 Motifs, Mascots and Muses at Refactor Camp, 2012
2012-02-09 Refactor Camp 2012: Generativity and Captivity
2012-02-08 The Tempo Glossary
2012-02-07 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region
2012-01-06 2012 Reading List, January - June
2011-12-22 Tempo: Year One
2011-12-21 Complete 2011 Roundup
2011-12-02 Tempo now available on the Nook
2011-11-21 The Towers of Priority
2011-11-21 Tempo Now Available on Kindle
2011-11-07 Ancora Imparo: Warsaw, Poland.
2011-11-07 Quandary: Seattle WA
2011-11-03 Ribbonfarm Field Trip #3: Computer History Museum, 11/19/2011
2011-11-02 A Pilgrimage through Stagnation and Acceleration
2011-10-26 Three Deep Videos and a Roundup
2011-10-13 Tempo Review on BoingBoing by Cory Doctorow
2011-10-06 New Forbes Blog, Economist Video
2011-10-03 Mental Models and Archetypes Explained
2011-09-12 The Gervais Principle in New York, and Friday 9/16 NYC Meetup
2011-09-07 Tempo goes to Burning Man
2011-08-12 The August Reading List Freeze
2011-08-10 A Proposed Grand Narrative for the History of Debt
2011-07-24 Chet Richards' Review of Tempo on Fabius Maximus
2011-07-22 Tempo and OODA: The Backstory
2011-07-21 Houseboats, Containers, Guns and Garbage: the 2011 Ribbonfarm Field Trip
2011-07-13 Storytelling for Problem-Solving
2011-06-30 California Visit: July 11 - Aug 4, including a 4th Anniversary Field Trip
2011-06-29 Never Stop Marketing, Silver Spring, MD
2011-06-29 H.M.S. Cock-Robin, Cambridge, UK
2011-06-29 The Four Kinds of Economies
2011-06-24 Semi-Annual Roundup 2011 and Highlights for New Readers
2011-06-24 Kindle Edition Status, Glossary, Global Availability, Road Trip Contd.
2011-06-06 Bardic Mystique: Maastricht, Netherlands
2011-05-31 Review at Zenpundit.com
2011-05-24 Dulce Domum
2011-05-20 My Competition?
2011-05-18 How Clock Time Replaced Narrative Time
2011-05-18 Smalltalk with Gary and Harpreet
2011-05-17 On Rest Stops 2.0
2011-05-16 The Memphis Drum Shop
2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone
2011-05-16 Rabble Rouser: Seattle WA
2011-05-16 Lame name: Belmont, CA
2011-05-16 Week 3: Memphis, St. Louis, Omaha, Carhenge, Deadwood, Yellowstone
2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans
2011-05-09 Week 2: Ann Arbor, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans
2011-05-08 Darwin, Some Rationalists and the Joker
2011-05-07 Talking Temporal Illegibility in Montreal
2011-05-05 Why Some Drives are Fun
2011-05-03 The Tempo of Food
2011-05-03 A Moment of Silence with John Boyd
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-05-02 Week 1: DC, Wilmington, Albany, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2011-04-28 The Tempo Road Trip
2011-04-21 The Tempo Road Trip
2011-03-31 Tempo Stealth Edition
2011-03-24 Say Hello to "Barbarian," the Crowd-Funded Ribbonfarm Laptop
2011-03-01 Where the Wild Thoughts Are
2010-12-21 Ribbonfarm Complete 2010 Roundup
2010-12-13 Update on Tempo
2010-11-19 Ribbonfarm is Now Mobile-Friendly (Sort Of)
2010-08-25 Interested in Guest Posting on Ribbonfarm?
2010-08-15 Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Blog of Ribbonfarm.
2010-07-28 Wanted: A Book Cover Designer for \"Tempo\"
2010-07-22 The Right Question, Review of Shallows, Insight vs. Mind-Candy
2010-06-30 The Philosopher's Abacus
2010-06-03 Three Off-Ribbonfarm Posts
2010-05-12 A Bumper May Harvest of Good Reading
2010-05-06 Two Interesting Gervais Principle Follow-Ups
2010-04-28 Be Slightly Evil
2010-04-12 Four-Hour Workweek or Executricks?
2010-03-16 Ribbonfarm Facebook page, Twitter Feed, Posterous
2010-02-11 Guest Post on VentureBeat on the iPad
2010-01-20 The Ribbonfarm Posterous
2010-01-13 Conceptual Metaphors (Mashable), Gervais Principle (Fugitive Philosophy)
2010-01-04 Predictions 2010 (on Silicon Angle)
2010-01-02 2009 Roundup, 2010 Preview
2009-12-27 Work-Life Balance: Juggling, Spinning or Surfing? (Rerun)
2009-12-22 How to Make New Year's Calibrations (Rerun)
2009-12-16 The Right and Left Brains of Enterprise 2.0
2009-10-14 Hello to Slashdotters, Gervais Principle Follow-Ups
2009-07-17 Cloudworker Board Game Revisited
2009-07-07 The Epic Story of Container Shipping
2009-05-05 Ribbonfarm at the Crossroads
2009-04-15 Coworking: \"I'm Outta Here\" by Jones, Sundsted and Bacigalupo
2009-03-11 Neatness, Organization and Unsociability
2008-12-31 Six Personal Favorites for 2008
2008-12-26 Complete 2008 Roundup
2008-12-01 Future-of-Work Mini-X-Prizes at Cloudworker.org
2008-10-31 My First Book, A Board Game and 'Cloudworker' on the NYT
2008-10-30 Vote for 'Cloudworker' Among Plantronics Contest Finalists!
2008-09-29 A Generational War (Guest Post on Enterprise 2.0 Blog)
2008-07-07 Dipity, Or, How to View Time, 2.0
2008-07-06 Happy First Birthday, Ribbonfarm
2008-06-27 From Bubbles to Cloud: The Evolution of Enterprise 2.0
2008-06-16 Roundup: March 21 - June 16
2008-04-29 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #3
2008-04-22 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #2
2008-04-19 A Map of the World 2.0 Canon
2008-04-14 The Sage of Ribbonfarm #1
2008-04-08 The New Location, Location, Location
2008-03-21 Roundup: Jan 17 - March 20
2008-01-16 2007 Review, 2008 Preview
2007-09-15 BBC Documentary Featuring Gregory Chaitin
2007-09-13 Book-Reading Meme
2007-09-12 August-ish 2007 Roundup
2007-08-05 July 2007 Roundup
2007-08-01 The Fifty-Foot Rule Reconsidered