| B01 perspective notes: how Andrew Maynard thinks (18 posts, 2014-11-23 to 2018-08-22) |
4,505 |
Scope and evidence rules. I read all 18 posts in full. There are no Modem Futura posts in this batch. Almost all of them are Conversation op-eds or 2020 Science blog posts that were later moved to the Substack. |
| B02 perspective notes: how Andrew thinks (2018-08-26 to 2018-11-15, 17 posts) |
3,561 |
Sixteen of the 17 posts are the weekly run-up to the publication of Films from the Future (FFTF) on 15 November 2018. Most are abridged chapter openings, sometimes with italic framing notes he added when posting. The… |
| B03 perspective notes: how he thinks (14 posts, 2018-11-25 to 2019-06-12) |
4,619 |
Batch context. These are the months after Films from the Future (FFTF, Mango, November 2018) came out, while he was directing the ASU Risk Innovation Lab and teaching in the School for the Future of Innovation in… |
| B04 perspective notes: 2019-07-23 to 2020-07-30 (8 posts) |
3,717 |
I read all eight posts in full, looking at how he thinks and works as well as what he says. I read the earlier concept notes only afterwards, as a cross-check. |
| B05 perspective notes: how he thinks (2020-08-28 to 2021-02-25, 13 posts) |
4,900 |
All 13 posts were read in full. The earlier concept notes were consulted only after that reading. Quotes were checked character by character against the corpus files and keep the source’s spelling and italics. |
| B06 perspective notes: how he thinks (13 posts, 2021-03-28 to 2022-12-13) |
5,474 |
Read for method, values and role rather than for concepts. All 13 posts were read in full. There are no Modem Futura posts in this batch; 2021-05-28 announces the Future Rising podcast, a different show. Every quote… |
| B07 — perspective notes (2023-01-31 to 2023-04-12, 8 posts) |
3,837 |
What this batch covers. Two ChatGPT experiments from the Medium period (January and March 2023), then the April 2023 move to Substack, in the weeks after GPT-4 arrived and the Future of Life Institute’s “pause” letter… |
| B08 perspective notes: 2023-04-14 to 2023-05-12 (12 posts) |
4,218 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All twelve posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos. |
| B09 perspective notes: 2023-05-15 to 2023-07-21 (18 posts) |
6,127 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All 17 posts with text were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation. |
| B10 perspective notes: 2023-07-25 to 2023-09-01 (18 posts) |
5,282 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All eighteen posts were read in full, including the six Moviegoer’s Guide episode posts (their written introductions only; the audio was… |
| B11 perspective notes: 2023-09-04 to 2023-10-20 (18 posts) |
5,308 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All 18 posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos, except that straight apostrophes replace curly ones. |
| B12 perspective notes: 2023-10-24 to 2023-12-01 (17 posts) |
5,106 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All seventeen posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos. There are no Modem Futura posts in this batch. |
| B13 perspective notes: 2023-12-03 to 2024-02-05 (15 posts) |
5,513 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All fifteen posts were read in full. There are no Modem Futura posts in this batch. Quotes are exact apart from straightened apostrophes,… |
| B14 perspective notes: 2024-02-11 to 2024-04-14 (18 posts) |
5,686 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eighteen posts in full. For the six “In Conversation With …” audio posts only his framing lines count as evidence. Quotes are… |
| B15 perspective notes: 2024-04-16 to 2024-06-23 (16 posts) |
6,715 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All sixteen posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos (“free reign”, “might of been”, “what what is”, “AI’s”, “chose… |
| B16 perspective notes: 2024-06-25 to 2024-08-18 (15 posts) |
5,442 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All fifteen posts were read in full. There are no Modem Futura note posts in this batch. Quotes are exact, including his typos (“I’d of… |
| B17 perspective notes: 2024-08-21 to 2024-09-25 (10 posts) |
5,139 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All ten posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos. There are no Modem Futura episode posts in this batch. The… |
| B18 perspective notes: 2024-09-28 (1 post) |
3,478 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. The batch is a single post, 2024-09-28 chatgpt-as-author-part-1-the-story, which I read in full, including a skim of the novella. Quotes… |
| B19 perspective notes: 2024-09-29 to 2024-11-03 (9 posts) |
5,963 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All nine posts were read in full; the Modem Futura launch note was read for his framing lines only. Quotes are exact, including his… |
| B20 perspective notes: 2024-11-06 to 2025-01-12 (18 posts) |
6,537 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eighteen posts in full. The five Modem Futura episode posts were read for his own framing lines only; the episodes themselves… |
| B21 perspective notes: 2025-01-14 to 2025-02-25 (14 posts) |
6,329 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All fourteen posts were read in full. The six Modem Futura posts (2025-01-14, 01-21, 01-28, 02-11, 02-18, 02-25) were read for his own… |
| B22 perspective notes: 2025-03-02 to 2025-03-27 (10 posts) |
6,454 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All ten posts were read in full. The four Modem Futura episode posts were read for his own framing lines only. Quotes are exact,… |
| B23 perspective notes: 2025-03-30 to 2025-04-01 (2 posts) |
3,363 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. Both posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos (“2025 Yidan Price Conference”, “Chef AI Officer”, “we need to take… |
| B24 perspective notes: 2025-04-06 to 2025-04-08 (2 posts) |
3,744 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read both posts in full. For the o1-pro report embedded in the first post, I read the Executive Summary and main body and skimmed… |
| B25 perspective notes: 2025-04-13 to 2025-05-25 (10 posts) |
5,964 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all ten posts in full. For the three Modem Futura episode posts I took only his own framing lines. Quotes are exact, including his… |
| B26 perspective notes: 2025-06-01 to 2025-08-31 (13 posts) |
5,775 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all 13 posts in full. The one Modem Futura plug (08-26) was read for his own framing lines only. Quotes are exact, including his… |
| B27 perspective notes: 2025-09-07 to 2025-11-24 (16 posts) |
5,446 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. Every post was read in full; the Modem Futura note was skimmed for his own framing lines. Quotes are exact, including his typos (“hight… |
| B28 perspective notes: 2025-11-24 to 2026-01-25 (12 posts) |
5,781 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all twelve posts in full. The earlier concept notes were consulted only after reading, to check provenance. Quotes are exact,… |
| B29 perspective notes: 2026-01-31 to 2026-05-10 (18 posts) |
7,757 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eighteen texts in full. One is a Modem Futura episode post (2026-03-15), read for his framing lines only; the episode itself… |
| B30 perspective notes: 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-10 (8 posts) |
5,039 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eight posts in full, including the AI-written sections, to check for any passages in his own voice inside them. There are no… |
| B31 perspective notes: 2026-07-16 to 2026-09-20 (9 posts) |
5,338 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all nine posts in full, including the whole of the roughly 11,000-word orphan-risks paper. None of the posts is a Modem Futura… |
| B32 perspective notes: 2026-09-24 (1 post) |
5,330 |
These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read the one post in full: introduction, lecture body, postscript, Claude’s process account and all nine footnotes. Quotes are exact,… |
| FFTF-A perspective notes: how Andrew Maynard thinks, from Films from the Future (2018) |
5,890 |
What was read. - Read in full: book/FFTF-A.txt. This covers ch1 “In the Beginning” (pp.14–26), ch2 “Jurassic Park: The Rise of Resurrection Biology” (pp.27–45), ch14 “Looking to the Future” (pp.287–291) and the… |
| SUPP-self perspective notes: how Andrew Maynard describes his own thinking (self-accounts, 2011–2026) |
6,503 |
Scope. This batch covers the texts where Andrew explains himself: what he does, how he does it and why. It also covers the Nature and Nature Nanotechnology columns that show where his method came from, and the stated… |