Archive - Soft Futures

Powering Technology With Photosynthetic Microbes

Plant-like animals, microbial symbiosis, and the reciprocity between technology and nature

May 7 •

October 2024

Brains in a Dish are the Future of Computing

Neurons playing video games, synthetic biological intelligence and the nano-intentionality of technology

Oct 14, 2024 •

January 2024

2.2 Million New Materials Discovered with AI

Geological media, the technosphere, and impending singularities

Jan 25, 2024 •

December 2023

Ecology of Snowflakes

Catastrophe, hydrofeminism and the memory of water

Dec 21, 2023 •

October 2023

Quantum Dots Illuminate Life's Mechanisms

How do bodies become images, and images become bodies?

Oct 26, 2023 •

August 2023

History of Gold Nanotechnology

What colloids can teach us about the reality of bodies.

Aug 3, 2023 •

July 2023

Protocells from Meteorite Dust

Contemplating life's own extraterrestrial origins

Jul 20, 2023 •

June 2023

Lifelike Swimming Micro-Robots

Active matter and non-human agency.

Jun 15, 2023 •

Living Photosynthetic Slime

Viscous synergies between nature and technology.

Jun 1, 2023 •

May 2023

Diatom Art in the 19th Century

Why art and science have never been two separate endeavors.

May 25, 2023 •

Materials at the boundary of information and meaning.

May 18, 2023 •

Shape-Shifting Liquid Crystal Droplets

Morphogenesis as a balance of order and chaos.

May 11, 2023 •

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