Artificial intelligence, digital systems, automation, tools, computation, and the social consequences of technology.
Christine McDougall, who writes at Syntropic World and has spent twenty years building the models and the language her project needs, has published an essay called 95% Yanged Out. It’s a furious, exact, and, in large...
From Digitisation to Disenfranchisement
The heat in Bangkok’s early afternoon doesn’t rise from the pavement; it presses down from above, a heavy, wet weight that smells of charcoal, two-stroke exhaust, and the slow fermentation of canal water.
Proactive Health in the Context of Change
The Chokepoint Nobody Watched - Until Now
Wellness and Wellbeing in an Ageing Society
On the pattern no constitution prevents
How Data Systems Recode Human Possibility
The agenda that makes argument irrelevant
On misreading, projection, and what the noise tells us
The War That Consumes Its Own Intelligence
Dispatches from the End of Empire
From Mastery of Task to Mastery of Thought
From Literacy's Emergence to Digital Eclipse
Refusing to Step Into the Mechanical Future
The Case for a Post-Political Demos
How Genius Follows Gender – and Why That is Wasteful
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