Page 17 – How We Get To Next

The Schedule and the Stream

Despite the utopian promises of early pioneers, public spaces do not organically emerge from new technologies.

Matt Locke
Jan 27, 2017 9 min read

How the Art of Signaling Is Changing

Who needs eyes when you have an app?

Hannah Harris Green
Jan 26, 2017 9 min read

For the Fun of It

We explore ornamentation, the non-medical application of a device made with gold leaf, and how the MIT Media Lab stays creative.

Steven Johnson
Jan 25, 2017 9 min read

Street Protest Lessons from Argentina

After Trump's inauguration, the question is: Will the United States see an increase in authoritarianism against public protest, just like Argentina...

Martin Etchegaray
Jan 21, 2017 8 min read

Activism on the Subway Platform

Activists across the world are leveraging the power of public transit as a place of common reference for the people who...

Steven Higashide
Jan 18, 2017 8 min read

The Web Divided

Will machine translation ever bring us together?

Corin Faife
Jan 13, 2017 10 min read

Sphere of Life

An investigation into one of humanity's oldest and most ubiquitous inventions: the ball.

Steven Johnson
Jan 11, 2017 8 min read

Together in Public: A Reading List

How new technologies are changing how we interact with each other in physical and digital spaces.

How We Get To Next
Jan 10, 2017 5 min read

AI Is the New TA in the Classroom

Machine intelligence will have an increasingly prominent role in the classrooms of tomorrow.

Rose Luckin & Wayne Holmes
Jan 4, 2017 4 min read

The Game Worlds We Make

Why designing a simple board game with my son rivals anything he's learning in school.

Steven Johnson
Jan 3, 2017 9 min read

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