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29 2026 July
The Beautiful Second Life of Decommissioned Buses
When London’s decommissioned New Routemaster buses leave the roads over the next four years, many of them will be repurposed into mobile playgrounds thanks to an award-winning...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Ultimate Future Words Collection
This week’s “book of the week” is a bit of an unusual share. For those of you who follow me on Linkedin, you might have...
Read Now27 2026 July
The Secret of the Mississippi Miracle and How to Get Kids to Read Again
A featured story from WIRED this month takes a deep dive into the challenges of getting kids to read and how they are increasingly only reading in...
Read Now23 2026 July
The Non-Obvious Future Word of the Week: Fauxstalgia & The Lost Goal of Pelé
Fauxstalgia – The ache for a memory that was AI-generated and never actually lived through. The most legendary soccer player in history once shared that the best...
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Why the Best Immersive Experiences Succeed
What makes a great immersive experience? It’s a relevant question right now as we see more brands trying to find the right way to both...
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InfoWars Is Back, Run by the Team from The Onion
How do you deliver karmic justice to one of the most evil media personalities ever? For the team behind the satirical website The Onion, the...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: What to Make of a Life by Jim Collins
Writing about what a life well lived looks like is a pretty intimidating topic for any writer. Jim Collins is one of the few who...
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Summer Heat Waves Create the “Problem” of Negative Energy Prices
Here’s a “problem” you don’t hear that much about yet: negative energy prices. This is what happens when a green energy initiative such as solar...
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Now You Can Automate Your Automation with Prompt Generators
Anyone who has used AI actively over the past few years knows that the only way to get what you truly want out of an...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Algospeak by Adam Aleksic
As I work on Future Words, I’ve become even more of a student of language, and this book was one of my favorites on the...
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The Indianis Dentris and Other Big Winners from Cannes
There’s a new flower discovery that has been shifting perspectives in India. Well, actually, it’s not really a new flower but rather a closeup of...
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3 Reasons Commencement Speakers Should Be Comedians
Over the past few weeks, I’ve attended two graduations in person and watched more than a dozen clips from others that have been circulating online....
Read Now25 2026 June
The Most Meaningless Stories in America Are About Lawsuits
Seeing information visualized is one of my favorite types of media. In the past I’ve also recommended the Information Is Beautiful site as one to...
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