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I have been publishing online in various forms my entire adult life. Below is a selection of 89 pieces from over the years.
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2024

Welcome to Centaur Labs

4 Jan 2024 • Projects

Building a brand new website using modern development frameworks and ChatGPT.

Envisioning Purpose

3 Jan 2024 • Envisioning

Augmented creativity using artificial intelligence.

My THNK Experience (2012-2024) 🇳🇱

2 Jan 2024 • Travelogue

The school of leadership, life and responsibility.

2023

COP28 in Dubai 🇦🇪

7 Dec 2023 • Travelogue

Workshop on Generative AI and the global climate crisis at COP28 in Dubai.

GPTarot.ai

11 Nov 2023 • Hermetics

Website using GPT to perform tarot readings representing past, present, and future.

Age of Centaurs (Trend Seminar)

31 Oct 2023 • Presentation

Presentation about five visions for human-machine augmentation.

Profile Photos and AI

20 Aug 2023 • Projects

Virtual photo shoots and the state of personalized generative images.

Artificial Insights

24 Apr 2023 • Envisioning

Introducing Artificial Insights—writing on AI from Envisioning.

About Futures (Interview)

6 Mar 2023 • Interview

Podcast in Portuguese about my perspectives and opinions on speculative futures.

The 36 Decans

3 Mar 2023 • Hermetics

Information design project for exploring the 36 Astrological Decans as a contemporary diagram.

The Tree of Life

2 Feb 2023 • Hermetics

Information design project for exploring the Kabbalistic Tree of Life as a contemporary diagram.

Using intelligent technologies responsibly

31 Jan 2023 • Essay

Generative AI tools took off like wildfire in 2022 and are likely to keep growing in relevance and disruptive potential in 2023.

Tools for Self-Initiation

1 Jan 2023 • Hermetics

Aesthetic Hermetics explores occult principles to help seekers on their journey.

2022

Futureshock 2022

31 Dec 2022 • Futureshock

Shocking reminders we live in the future.

Futures as Discourse

11 Nov 2022 • Projects

Commonplace Futures (talking about futures is easier than practicing futures).

Tel Aviv 🇮🇱

11 Nov 2022 • Travelogue

One week in Tel Aviv.

Almaty 🇰🇿

1 Nov 2022 • Travelogue

Speaking at EdCrunch in Kazakhstan.

Standing Desks (2012-2022)

1 Jul 2022 • Projects

A visual history of various standing desks.

Thriving on Overload (Interview)

6 Apr 2022 • Interview

Interview on how technology evolves and designing infographics.

Future Studio (Al-'Ula) 🇸🇦

31 Jan 2022 • Travelogue

Travelogue in Saudi Arabia.

2021

Hello, world! 🇦🇪

14 Oct 2021 • Travelogue

My experience at Expo 2021 in Dubai.

Designer Founders (Interview)

5 Oct 2021 • Interview

Interview about my experience as a designer-founder.

QFL: Quantitative Futures Lab

8 Apr 2021 • Envisioning

Analysing emerging technologies with a quantitative data mode (with Cappra Institute).

Tarot Database (Notion)

1 Jan 2021 • Hermetics

Collection of 1200+ Major Arcana designs from different decks organized by date.

2020

Interconnected Correspondence Table (ODX)

31 Dec 2020 • Hermetics

Notion database for relating multiple correspondence tables.

Futures Literacy Summit

30 Dec 2020 • Envisioning

Capability or skill allowing people to better understand the role that the future plays in the present.

Envisioning Cities

8 Aug 2020 • Envisioning

Research platform for public officials.

On panic and normality (Interview)

8 Jul 2020 • Interview

Interview on the Polaris podcast.

The Next Decade (Interview)

8 Jul 2020 • Interview

Interview with L'Atelier CEO John Egan.

2019

Learning Tarot

10 Oct 2019 • Hermetics

Picking up Tarot by reading for others.

Interview #58

13 Jul 2019 • Hyperbook

Profile 58 from an interview series.

Which technology makes you feel connected to others? (Q15)

13 Jul 2019 • Hyperbook

Question 15 from an interview series.

Does it feel like the world is speeding up? (Q1)

24 Jun 2019 • Hyperbook

Question 1 from an interview series.

What worries you about the future? (Q6)

24 Jun 2019 • Hyperbook

Question 6 from an interview series.

How does the smartphone make you feel? (Q8)

18 Jun 2019 • Hyperbook

Question 5 from an interview series.

What is the first technology you remember using? (Q5)

12 Jun 2019 • Hyperbook

Question 5 from an interview series.

How does it feel to be offline? (Q7)

26 May 2019 • Hyperbook

Question 7 from an interview series.

The Interview

26 May 2019 • Hyperbook

Questions concerning the use of personal technology.

Equanimity

10 Apr 2019 • Essay

Developing a balanced relationship with technology.

Disconnect to reconnect

7 Apr 2019 • Essay

I am writing this because we are lost.

2018

Futureshock 2018

31 Dec 2018 • Futureshock

Shocking reminders we live in the future.

Singularity University 🇺🇸

28 Sept 2018 • Travelogue

Beyond Exponentials: Finding certainty in uncertainty in Silicon Valley.

Salzburg Global Seminar 🇦🇹

28 Feb 2018 • Travelogue

Strategies for Reimagining the Future in Salzburg.

2017

World Government Summit 🇦🇪

11 Nov 2017 • Travelogue

Traveling to and working from Dubai (2017-2019).

Scratch Your Own Itch (Interview)

21 Jun 2017 • Interview

Interview published on MasterTech.

Surya Namaskar

5 May 2017 • Projects

Infographic and explanation for performing sun salutations.

On Envisioning (Interview)

1 May 2017 • Interview

Interview with THNK School of Creative Leadership.

2016

Futureshock 2016

31 Dec 2016 • Futureshock

Shocking reminders we live in the future.

Futurekit (2013-2016)

30 Dec 2016 • Envisioning

Workshop methodology for teaching people about emerging technologies.

On Education (WIRED UK)

10 Nov 2016 • Interview

How should we educate our children to be productive members of tomorrow’s society?

On Centaurs (Interview)

6 Nov 2016 • Interview

Interview published on CollectiveNext.

Brasilia 🇧🇷

30 Oct 2016 • Travelogue

One weekend in Brasilia.

Saudi 🇸🇦

1 Jun 2016 • Travelogue

Experiencing Riyadh and Jeddah.

2015

Futureshock 2015

31 Dec 2015 • Futureshock

Shocking reminders we live in the future.

Imagining the Future of Agtech (Interview)

11 Sept 2015 • Interview

Interview about agriculture and technology with AgFunderNews.

Hello, world! 🇮🇹

3 Jul 2015 • Travelogue

My experience sampling the planet at Expo 2015 in Milan.

Design Truth (Interview)

6 May 2015 • Interview

Interview published on DesignDecode.

Building Better Tomorrows

21 Feb 2015 • Essay

A crash course in technology thinking.

Falling In 🇧🇷

21 Feb 2015 • Travelogue

Experiencing Ayahuasca in São Paulo.

2014

Futureshock 2014

31 Dec 2014 • Futureshock

Shocking reminders we live in the future.

Taming busyness

21 Apr 2014 • Essay

Practicing uninterruptability in a noisy world.

Kids With Broadband

26 Feb 2014 • Presentation

Keynote presentation given at Chungdahm Learning in Seoul

Reschooling Society in South Korea 🇰🇷

24 Feb 2014 • Travelogue

Observations about the future of schooling in Seoul.

Metatechnological skills

27 Jan 2014 • Essay

I've spent my life thinking about technology.

2013

Futureshock 2013

31 Dec 2013 • Futureshock

Shocking reminders we live in the future.

Everything is accelerating

10 Nov 2013 • Presentation

Keynote given for an Amsterdam CEO Summit via THNK.

Envisioning the future of money

20 Aug 2013 • Envisioning

Subjective, speculative timeline on emerging technologies for Money.

The Internet

3 Aug 2013 • Essay

Meditations on the Internet.

2012

The Simulator

30 Dec 2012 • Essay

Musings on simulations.

Hong Kong 🇭🇰

7 Dec 2012 • Travelogue

One week in Hong Kong.

Envisioning the future of health

1 Dec 2012 • Envisioning

Subjective, speculative timeline on emerging technologies for Health.

Envisioning smartphones in 2017

16 Aug 2012 • Essay

Extrapolations about future smartphone capabilities.

Post-information-age skills

24 Jul 2012 • Essay

Guest post for the Institute of Ethics in Emerging Technology (IEET).

The future of education

25 Jun 2012 • Envisioning

Subjective, speculative timeline on emerging technologies for Education.

Envisioning the future classroom

26 Apr 2012 • Envisioning

Envisioning the future classroom in Dublin.

Envisioning emerging technology for 2012 and beyond

1 Mar 2012 • Envisioning

Subjective, speculative timeline on emerging technologies.

On the Brink of Unimaginable Change (IBM Smarter Planet)

25 Jan 2012 • Essay

The predictable acceleration of hardware, connectivity and sensors makes me optimistic about the coming decades.

2011

Envisioning Education

17 Nov 2011 • Presentation

Lecture given at the University of Northampton on the future of education.

Envisioning Futures

29 May 2011 • Envisioning

Personal notes about what was to be.

NYC 🇺🇸

2 May 2011 • Travelogue

Three days in New York in spring.

Envisioning emerging technology 2011

1 Mar 2011 • Envisioning

Subjective, speculative timeline on emerging technologies.

2009

Shanghai 🇨🇳

11 Nov 2009 • Travelogue

One week in Shanghai.

Taipei 🇹🇼

20 Oct 2009 • Travelogue

Three days in Taiwan.

Amsterdam 🇳🇱

9 May 2009 • Travelogue

Spring in Amsterdam.

2008

5×5: Five technologies for the next five years

26 Apr 2008 • Envisioning

Speculating about the technological futures of 2013.

Uganda 🇺🇬

20 Jan 2008 • Travelogue

Visiting Kampala and beyond.

2007

Musings, and the future.

1 Oct 2007 • Essay

Speculative insights about the future.

Tokyo 🇯🇵

26 Jul 2007 • Travelogue

Navigating Tokyo before smartphones.

2006

Singapore 🇸🇬

10 Nov 2006 • Travelogue

One week in Singapore.