A. Z. Mackay
The newsletter six months ahead of the conversation
A weekly newsletter tracking the cultural, psychological, and social shifts that happen when emerging tech rewrites what it means to be human. Speculative tech anthropology for the fiction-minded.
Enter Future Tense
About Future Tense
Future Tense is a weekly newsletter by A.Z. Mackay examining how AI, biotech, algorithmic culture, and emerging technologies reshape desire, status, identity, and power. Not tech journalism—tech anthropology.
Topics
- Artificial Intelligence and cultural impact
- Algorithmic culture and digital mythology
- Technology and human identity
- Space exploration and billionaire ambitions
- Gene editing and biotechnology ethics
- Tech industry critique and analysis
About A.Z. Mackay
A.Z. Mackay is a fiction writer and cultural critic with thirty years in technology, currently Head of AI Research at a software company. Future Tense combines weekly essays with serialized fiction, examining patterns in the present and extrapolating them into the near future.