A newsletter+podcast on current technology and futures themes alongside serialized output from longer ongoing bigger projects. Subscribe.

A deep look at the radical global transformation we have been undergoing since 2016. The essays will be serialized on the newsletter starting April 2020. Explore.

The Clockless Clock

A book on post-digital temporality, based on research in 2019-20, with support from the Berggruen Institute. The book will be serialized on the newsletter starting April 2020. Explore.

An essay collection (the original one that launched this site) on how software is eating the world, completed in 2014-15 with support from Andreessen-Horowitz. Read.

Season 1 on Kindle. Buy.

Season 1 workshop, featuring about 8 hours of video lecture content. Enroll.

About

Breaking Smart is a platform for longer non-fiction writing projects on technology and the future by Venkatesh Rao. Illustrations on this site are by Grace Witherell. It is funded by newsletter subscriptions and the occasional larger institutional grant.