New World Same Humans

Welcome to this essay from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and our shared future by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 20,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 🙌 This is instalment two of The Worlds to Come, an essay from NWSH. Go here to read the first instalment , or here to listen to it in podcast form ....

Welcome to this essay from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on technology and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 20,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 🙌 This is instalment two of The Worlds to Come, an essay from NWSH. Go here to read the first instalment , or here to listen to it in podcast form . 🙌 It’s been a while...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 22,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week, a firestorm broke out among artists when work created by an AI image generator won a mainstream art prize. Also, scientists say Gree...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 22,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week, Google and Xiaomi deliver Big Robot Energy. Meanwhile, a new study reveals just how much forest our planet is losing to fire. And Ch...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 22,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week, tech giant NVIDIA launch a new tool that empowers users to build their own AI-fuelled avatars. Meanwhile, Europe’s exceptionally hot...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 22,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 To Begin This week’s New Week comes a little late; but it’s a packed instalment. US energy startup Nuscale Power took a big stride towards the deploymen...

Welcome to the mid-week update from  New World Same Humans , a newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, join 22,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better future  🚀🔮 🎧 Listen to New Week ! 🎧 As you may have noticed above, this instalment of New Week comes with something added. Across the last few months many of you...

Welcome to New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and aren’t subscribed, join 20,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better future 🚀🔮 This instalment marks a turning point for NWSH . It’s the last Sunday note in its current form. As I mentioned in last week’s New Beginnings , I’m moving to a new format: instea...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 20,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 I love this season, because it whispers to us all about new beginnings. A whole new year; what are you going to do with it? Over the break, then, I sat with that...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 19,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week’s NWSH is brought to you by Day One . Founding a startup is hard. But if you’re an aspiring founder, you don’t have to face that truth alone. There’s an...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 19,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 While I plan the next evolution of NWSH , I’ve been looking over past instalments of this newsletter. A few days ago, I came to the first email of 2021. In that i...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 19,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, a short essay on robots and the human Good Life. But first, a quick update. I’m thrilled by the response to the launch of our end of year extravaganza:...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 19,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 A short instalment this week. Two related, and telling, stories caught my eye. Take them as two signs of the times. To learn more, hit play! If you’d prefer to re...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 19,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Human activity is causing deep, irreversible damage to the Earth. A mountain of good science tells us so. But what is our knowledge of all this doing to the colle...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, a short note founded in two stories from the tech-industrial complex. A few days ago in New Week #58 , I wrote about Blue Origin’s plans for a commerci...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 I’ve been thinking a lot, across the last few days, about trend and foresight methods. That’s thanks to a new project that I’m hugely excited about; I’ll be able...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week two stories caught my eye. Both, in their own way, offer a window on to the high-energy collision between the state and powerful technology platforms. S...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, a note on a connected world, transparency, and the nature of organisations. It builds on an idea I’ve been playing with for ages: the Glass Box organis...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, a short note on AI and creativity. This is founded in a thought I shared with the audience at last week’s NEXT Conference in Hamburg. Now, I want to sh...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 A quick thought this week. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal argued that Amazon is transforming the nature of work and production in the industrialised worl...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, an unusual instalment. I’ve long wanted to write a Sunday email that draws on the amazing conversations happening inside the  NWSH  Slack community. He...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 The climate protest group Extinction Rebellion have set up camp in my part of London. So this week, reflections on their mission, its legitimacy, and what it tell...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 If you’re a regular listener, you already know that I’m obsessed with the radical experiment in techno-governance taking shape in China. Two week ago, a document...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Every week – or, at least, every week for the last few months – I promise myself I’ll write a short Sunday instalment. Just one thought, I tell myself.  Just one!...

Welcome to New World Same Humans, a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet subscribed, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Everyone is talking about a longstanding  NWSH  obsession: the metaverse. I’ve written plenty on the rise of virtual worlds as domains of authentic human experien...