New World Same Humans

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This week Facebook announced that they’ll restore news content to Australian users. The tech giant has promised to sign payment deals with media providers...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 A short note this week. There are two reasons; one personal and one interplanetary. First, I took a few days off for my birthday. Even a newsletter obsess...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 What is true? It’s a question that’s easy to ask, but seemingly ever-more difficult to answer. A networked world has, as the 20th-century media theorist M...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This newsletter is underpinned by a model of historical change. In short: new technologies collide with universal, and fundamentally stable, human needs....

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 The world is complex. What handles can we grab that might allow us to understand it better? One answer: it pays to think about what is abundant, what is 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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 We talked a lot, in 2020, about the implications of the pandemic for us as a collective. Just a brief shock, or the start of system-wide change? A pause,...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 On Thursday, the incoming Biden administration announced a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. A cheque for $1,400 will go to every citizen with earnings under $...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 And we’re back! It’s only ten days old, but 2021 has already proved tumultuous. Meanwhile, here in London we’ve returned to full-scale lockdown. Still, th...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 Spotify has shared the most streamed artist of this year. TikTok has celebrated the most viral video. But so far, one end-of-year retrospective is yet to...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 The year is drawing to a close. It’s enough to put anyone in a reflective mood. Meanwhile, events of the last few days seemed to sum up so much of what th...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 The internet has rewired us. By which I mean: a connected world relentlessly fuels new human behaviours, habits, and expectations. And once they’ve been c...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 Recent weeks have brought news of three effective vaccines. Now, the challenge is roll out. We need to get these vaccines first to those who need them mos...

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, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 Back in NWSH #36 , I wrote about the coming challenge posed to the Global North by climate migration. I published that essay with some trepidation, becaus...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 It’s been quite a week. US Presidential elections always reverberate way beyond American shores. The campaigns are always noisy...

Welcome to the podcast version of New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 14,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, an essay on a powerful emerging trend and its path from weird to mainstream. I think this trend is set to reshape med...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 13,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, a news item got me thinking about an old question. Who is really in the driving seat of history: we humans, or our m...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 13,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 What do we owe future generations? That’s the short, yet vastly complex, question at the heart of this week’s New World Same Hu...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 13,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Back in the early days of the pandemic, we were obsessed with the question: pause or Great Reset? It’s a somewhat exhausted phr...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 12,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Jeff Bezos wants you to buy a little camera drone that will fly around your house. He promises not to spy on the footage. Okay?...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 12,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 New World Same Humans is on a mission to better understand our shared future: this much you know. The idea sometimes strikes me...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 12,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Back in New World Same Humans #21 , I wrote about the Four Futures framework. That instalment became the most popular NWSH emai...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 12,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 At the heart of this newsletter is the idea that if we are to understand the world we’ve built, we must look to ourselves and o...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 12,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Two weeks ago Facebook banned hundreds of accounts associated with the online conspiracy theory QAnon. Meanwhile a Republican p...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 12,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Two weeks ago, a California judge delivered a pretty monumental ruling on Uber and its relationship to its drivers. So this wee...

Welcome to the podcast version of  New World Same Humans , a weekly newsletter on trends, technology, and society by David Mattin. If you’re listening to this and you haven’t yet subscribed, then join 11,000+ curious souls on a journey to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week’s essay is about a paradox. More specifically, about how contemporary industrialised societies both cultivate and era...