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, join 18,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This week, news from Silicon Valley got me thinking about the ongoing battle over the future of work. And about a niche but influential idea that can help us make...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 I’m back from a week beside the sea! There’s nothing like a few days away from the desk to prompt new thinking. As you’d expect, I took the chance to ponder the f...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 A third heatwave is pummelling California and parts of the Pacific Northwest. Just two weeks ago, the same region saw temperatures that climate scientists say sho...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 A judge dismissed the US government’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook this week. Half my Twitter timeline celebrated; the other half were appalled. So this wee...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 This instalment of  NWSH  is brought to you by  Skillful . Starting from this newsletter’s earliest days, I’ve written often about the changing future of wor...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Tomorrow is the summer solstice; 2021 will be half over. At these landmark moments in the year, I always feel compelled to take stock. And this week that int...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future 🚀🔮 Here in the UK, we hosted this G7 summit this week. If nothing else it’s produced some beach pictures that our elected representatives can cherish forever. B...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This week saw the announcement of a new supersonic passenger jet, set to start commercial flights before the end of the decade. That inspired these reflec...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore made waves on Twitter this week when she published a constitution for an imaginary human settlement on Mars. At t...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 Snap, which sagely calls itself a camera company, held its annual developer conference this week. One announcement stood out above the others. And it insp...

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 17,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This week, reflections on the convergence of two powerful trends set to reshape our online lives. I’m talking about virtual humans, and a shift that some...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This week, I heard news of strange sightings in the night sky over London. The mystery was quickly solved. And it inspired this reflection on global chall...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 Across the Global North, vaccination programmes are taking effect. One consequence? In their millions, citizens face a return to normal working conditions...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 👋 Don’t miss this tech talk I’m hosting a Clubhouse discussion on Monday 26th – that’s today for many of you reading this – that I think will be up your...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 I’ve written often, in this newsletter, about what is next for cities. Recent debate on that subject has tended to focus on the industrialised world. Take...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This week, I go deep on an intriguing experiment that  never was . And what it tells us about the relationship between technology, climate change, and pol...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 As lockdown eases here in the UK, a transition is on the horizon. We’re about to find out what the  new normal  looks like when it comes to work. The pict...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 Here in the UK, this week marks one year since the start of the first coronavirus lockdown. Time, then, to reflect. A note this week on what we know must...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This week, how the pandemic pushed us deeper inside our troubled relationship with technoconsumerism. And the emergence of a new way to fight back. Hit pl...

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 16,000+ curious souls on a mission to build a better shared future  🚀🔮 This Wednesday in  New Week #25  I wrote about Stockton’s recent experiment with a Universal Basic Income. Stockton is a small city in California, not far...

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 16,000+ 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...