⤴️What is Memia?
In one (emoji-ornamented) sentence:
“🔮📈🌱 Exploring AI and exponential tech for a better planet 🌏 → solar system 🪐 → Universe 🌌”
Memia is a weekly email newsletter tracking new developments in emerging tech and thinking about (trans-)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 and geopolitics
Think about how to use technology to shape future outcomes for the environment, economy and the communities that we are all living in
…plus 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 every Wednesday!
Base value proposition:
I doomscroll through X, LinkedIn and umpteen other news feeds for hours every week so you don’t have to!
The weekly newsletter has been published since early 2020. People seem to find it useful and enjoy reading it. The archive now spans nearly 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 2023 year in review: Entering the new "AI-ocene" planetary epoch
![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 computing, future food/agriculture, health/longevity, transhumanism and geopolitical change….nothing is off the agenda.
You can sign up to get free access to the regular Memia newsletter and other research and analysis content as it is published. Never miss an update - every new edition of the newsletter goes directly to your inbox.
Paid subscribers also get access to the full Memia archive, the fully searchable Memia Knowledge Graph in Roam Research, together with taking part in subscriber-only online webinars and events.
🤯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 and foresight advisor, helping leadership teams to think about AI, future technology and innovation in their organizations. 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 New Zealand-specific updates on a separate Substack:
Here’s the latest:
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