⤴️What is Memia?
In one emoji-ornamented sentence:
“🔮📈🌱 Navigating exponential intelligence for a better planet 🌏 → solar system 🪐 → Universe 🌌”
Memia is a weekly email newsletter tracking new developments in emerging tech and thinking about humanity’s exponential future, written by me, Ben Reid, with a bit of help from AI.
Subscribing to Memia helps you to:
Keep up with the latest frontier AI and tech developments as they happen
Explore how new technology is shaping the future of science, business, society, economics, geopolitics …
Think about how to use technology to shape future outcomes
…plus receive a curated selection of longer reads and on-point memes from around the internet each week.
All in one easy to read (…ever longer…) digest arriving in your inbox each Wednesday!
Base value proposition:
“I doomscroll through X, LinkedIn and umpteen other tech news feeds for hours every week so you don’t have to!”
The weekly newsletter has been published since early 2020. Thousands of people read it and seem to find it useful. The archive now spans over 5 years, chronicling the rapid changes in AI and other technologies over that time.
Above all I aim for Memia’s writing to be leading edge, relevant, insightful, irreverent and *occasionally* entertaining. High signal to noise ratio. I hope you enjoy reading it!
Memia annual roundups
At the end of each year I publish an annual roundup trying to summarise the main themes of what’s happened in the last 12 months. Take a read of the last four years here:
![Memia 2022 year in review: Welcome... to the [Meta-] Polycrisis🤯](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_140,h_140,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.substack.com%2Fimage%2Fupload%2Fw_728%2Cc_limit%2Fc7lnrgr17hnsxz0udn3g)
🤔Constantly curious about the future
I have always tracked new technologies and signals of accelerating change… writing Memia has become my dojo to help me to understand a topic better and share my learning and thoughts about how these might affect our future lives.
Frequently covered fields include AI, (…AI, AI, AI… ), software, robotics, climatetech, crypto/Web3, quantum tech, future food/agriculture, health/longevity, transhumanism and geopolitical change….nothing is off the agenda.
Upgrade to paid
If you value the weekly newsletters after a few weeks of receiving them, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription - it really helps me put as much of my focus as possible on researching and writing the newsletter each week.
(Plus: if you and your team read Memia for work, group subscriptions are 25% off… please reach out to discuss a corporate subscription package for your organisation).
Paid subscribers get access to regular subscriber-only posts including Memia Mind Expanding and Memia Strategy Notes, the full Memia newsletter archive in Substack, the fully searchable Memia Knowledge Graph in Roam Research, together with taking part in occasional subscriber-only online webinars and events.
😶🌫️Memia by Ben Reid is a reader-supported publication fuelled by curiosity, endorphins and high-quality caffeine.☕ Please chip in by upgrading to a paid subscription (especially if you read this for work.) Only US$50/year or equivalent in your local currency. Thank you🙏
🤯What’s in the name?
The best ideas spread themselves.
Memia (pronounced mee-mia) is derived from the word meme:
What else does Memia do?
For more information about Ben Reid and Memia visit https://memia.com
By day I work as a strategy advisor with firms of all shapes and sizes, helping leadership teams to navigate AI, future technology and innovation in their organizations and markets. I also do briefings and keynote speaking presentations on AI and other tech.
For consulting and speaking enquiries, or If you would like to discuss any of the ideas in the Memia newsletter in more depth, please get in touch directly at ben.reid@memia.com
I wrote a book!
My 600-page book ⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa is an exploration of technological futures for my home country Aotearoa New Zealand. Released in digital version March 2024 and paperback May 2024. Find out more here: https://ffwd.nz
I’m also posting occasional New Zealand-specific updates on a separate Substack:
Here’s the latest:
Questions?
Learn more by clicking here - or reach out directly any time: ben.reid@memia.com
Namaste
Ben
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