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“Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations,” Conway wrote in his 1968 paper “How Do Committees Invent.”

• Shiny things: New (echo-)stethoscopes, with a cameo. Tech transforming agriculture. Future(s) of work and impact on cities. Britain and ‘Shit life syndrome‘. The digital e.£ pound. What could Zines be for large organisations? META trends. Zork maps. Pompeii invisible solar panels.

• INT: Low high tech defence potential, good navigation if paired with AI. Netlas as an OSINT tool for finding vulnerable systems.

• AI: Bing Chat is called Sydney. Stable attribution for images. Jailbreaking ChatGPT with DAN.

• BioAI: New proteins as antibiotics. MSoft and biology: BioGPT, for biology research.

• Reading: Murder by Pixel (short story, use of chatbots for harassment). WIREDs. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future.