E2: The Future

Graphic of worksteams put into service to execute the Hugging Face hack. From INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.

INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.

Prompt to Midjourney: “writers’ machine” INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.

INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.

INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.

This is an open-access version of my weekly column in The National, published Saturday, 1st August, 2026 Update: Nature Scot’s board decided on Monday 3rd August not to grant a license to the Men of Ness to hunt the Guga (young gannets) on the island of Sula Sgeir, this year THE deep Atlantic waves from The Minch batter madly at the shores of Sula Sgeir, 40 miles north of Lewis. A decent-sized fishing boat sends a dinghy out, landing provisions for 10 people, to be brutally hauled up the rock.

A “Minds” spaceship on the cover of Iain M Banks’ The Culture: The Drawings. Photo by Pat Kane INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world.

See second half of report INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.

INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.

Photo by Lukas Kyzur on Unsplash INTRO (scroll down for new leads): What do I mean by ‘superplay’? It’s an element of our current condition—where our natural capacities for envisioning and rehearsing (that is, play) escape their sandbox, and quickly become consequential in the world. They escape because powerful technologies - specifically the accelerating computations of AI - keep breaking the barriers between what we can imagine and what we can make.