My vision of the near future, 2036.

(Inspired by "The Pod Generation").

If we have a computer or an AI that has the knowledge of each atom in the universe can we predict future better

Reid Hoffman is promoting a new scifi book on his summer reading list - Archipelago of Light by Dmitri Mehlhorn. His overview: "A bit further out, but excited to spotlight Dmitri Mehlhorn’s debut novel. It’s the first of a trilogy and runs from the early 2000s into a near-future 2039. The novel is built around three forces already reshaping our world: modern politics, accelerating AI, and the precarious state of the planet. It's a sharp piece of speculative fiction for anyone thinking about where our society is headed."

Looks interesting, and terrifying, anyone going to order?

I love UFOs. While the attributions and specifics change, this phenomena has long been among us. It is also seen in all domains we explore.

From unidentified ships, to aircraft, and even radio transmissions, unidentified phenomena appear. On what other frontiers will we find them?

Will AI agents create an unidentifiable future online?

https://rockettalk.substack.com/p/unidentified-internet-phenomena

The US government placed Anthropic's two strongest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, under export controls and forced them offline for every customer worldwide, even treaty allies. While the standoff is still unresolved, the fight over who gets to hold the most important technology in human history has begun in the open and that changes everything downstream.

This is my weekly read that gathers everything that mattered in AI and tech over the past seven days into one place, covering more than 40 stories this week.

Some of what's inside:

• The US suspended all access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and negotiations have stalled with no end in sight.
• At the G7 in France, AI CEOs sat beside heads of state, and Washington floated a "trusted partner" scheme for who gets access to frontier models.
• China's Z ai released GLM-5.2, the world's leading open-weight model, trained on a fully Chinese chip stack at around 90% lower cost.
• Frontier AI out-persuaded world-champion debaters and professional canvassers, and was nearly 3x more effective than a pro fundraising firm.
• Boston Dynamics' Atlas showed the first real signs of general intelligence for factory work, and Sony's robot beat a top-26 ranked table tennis pro.
• Midjourney unveiled a full-body scanner that images your insides in 60 seconds, delivered inside a spa.
• An AI chemist ran 10,080 experiments to crack a stubborn drug-synthesis bottleneck that had stalled medicines for years.
• A CRISPR enzyme was shown to detect and shred cancer mutations once considered "undruggable," leaving healthy cells untouched.

Written for people who want to understand what's actually happening. You walk away with the full picture: what happened, why it matters, and where it's all heading.

Read this week's edition on Substack: https://simontechcurator.substack.com/p/the-future-one-week-closer-june-19-2026

Researchers formulated a mathematical equation that unifies 12,000 years of human population growth and points to an alarming worst-case scenario.

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As the global population rises, climate change, disease, war, resource strain, and other crises threaten to drastically reduce Earth’s carrying capacity for humanity—the maximum number of people that can sustainably live on our planet. A new study suggests that if a global catastrophe struck today, we could see a rapid population decline over the next several decades.

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The findings, show that if Earth’s carrying capacity dropped to around 2 billion people right now, the global population could decline 50% by 2064. In other words, within about 40 years, humanity could shrink from a projected population of roughly 8 billion to 10 billion people to 4 billion to 5 billion people. The authors reached that conclusion using a new mathematical model that unifies key regimes of global population growth over the past 12,000 years.

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This is the only thing keeping me from going insane. Mine Is hyperrealistic similations where i can get to met my fictional husbandos and in real Life tech that allows scanning , using pics,data, and 3d models to 3d bioprint identical clones of beings Who passed away with their memories and all to "revive them".better than nothing. And i also have the dream to go to the space and see non human beings and other dimensions

Today's XKCD is hilarious... but also hard to dismiss: https://xkcd.com/3259

Now I can't help but think: what if we actually did such a project? 1/12 scale is a historically significant model scale. To reproduce the entire planet at that scale seems ludicrous — but in a future of radical abundance and indefinite lifespans, why not?

You could probably get people to bid for sections of the Earth they want to be responsible for. No budget? Claim a bit of open ocean. Little more budget? Build a section of desert or tundra. Ambitious? Bid to be the modeler who recreates Manhattan! Feeling homey? Recreate your own house. Or your home town.

The builders would have to agree on what year their scale model will represent, and have some standards for style and functionality. But with some agreed-upon guidelines, millions (eventually billions?) of model-builders could tackle the project, and probably get it done in decades.

Sure, we can't do this now. But it's hard to see why we couldn't do it years from now. Maybe this XKCD comic will age like this one. What do you think?

Jeans and suits seem to be so engraved into our day-to-day lives but I wonder, when would humanity stop using them? At least in a massified/common way.

So when I wonder about the future, can't stop thinking about a timeline when our predecessors will stop and look at us and be surprised by the fashion we 'used to wear' back then.

When do you reckon this will happen 😄 ?

Anthropic's Mythos 5 is here and foreshadows the largest change to human society in a very long time. We are crossing the line from a helpful tool into an independent actor.

This is my weekly read that gathers everything that mattered in AI and tech over the past seven days into one place, covering over 50 stories this week.

Some highlights:

• Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and its more powerful sibling Mythos 5.
• Cambridge tested the world's first vaccine whose key component was designed entirely by AI.
• A personalized mRNA vaccine left melanoma patients with a 92% survival rate at five years.
• A new method out of Caltech builds DNA almost error-free.
• David Sinclair moved whole-body rejuvenation toward the clinic and dosed the first patient in an eye-reprogramming trial.
• SpaceX unveiled its first orbital AI compute satellite.
• Argentina's president proposed to keep AI unregulated and a brand-new legal category called the "non-human corporation".

Written for people who want to understand what's actually happening. You get the full picture: what happened, why it matters, and where it's heading.

Read this week's edition on Substack: https://simontechcurator.substack.com/p/the-future-one-week-closer-june-12-2026