Narrative Matters
The Real Threat of Artificial Technology
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Musings on AI and Technology
Artificial intelligence, digital systems, automation, tools, computation, and the social consequences of technology.
The Car Was Never The Point
Energy in a Civilisation Built to Move
Wearing Clothes & Making Stuff
The future of the apparel and allied industries
The Anxiety Economy
Who Profits When You Can't Put The Phone Down
A Cartography of Ghosts
Navigating the Regimes of Industrial Economism
The Frame that Admits No Reply
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...
A Most Discrete Desertion
From Digitisation to Disenfranchisement
Reading Outside the Lines
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.
A Picture of Wellness
Proactive Health in the Context of Change
The Gas Nobody Noticed
The Chokepoint Nobody Watched - Until Now
Transforming Healthcare
Wellness and Wellbeing in an Ageing Society
The Covenant That Wasn't There
On the pattern no constitution prevents
From Records to Rights
How Data Systems Recode Human Possibility
The Idea That Didn't Need To Win
The agenda that makes argument irrelevant
The Text Belongs To The Reader Now
On misreading, projection, and what the noise tells us
War on the Rocks
The War That Consumes Its Own Intelligence
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