Dance It Out
Synopsis: Strasbourg’s council met the dancing epidemic of 1518 by paying for more music.
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Musings on Humanity and Survival
Existential risk, human futures, survival, catastrophe, and the choices that shape humanity over long horizons.
The Priesthood Problem
Professionalism, Expertise, and the Quiet Surrender of the Self
Escape Velocity
Hierarchy, exit and scale in the creed steering our technological future
Twenty Naza
A documentary, a word for the dead, and the distance between knowing and stopping
Postponed Until Further Notice
The rapture and other improbable notions circulated by the idiocracy
No More Optimism Please. More Imagination
Synopsis: Our dread of the future may be less a failure of imagination than an accurate reading of the present.
The Man Who Brings The Future
I have spent twenty years watching a certain kind of man arrive in this part of the world, and I have never once managed to like him.
Fantasy Worlds
Children Who Read the Future as an Instruction Manual
Who Is Allowed To Say Stop?
A summons to pause unconstrained development of AI
What Life’s All About
We live, let’s be honest, in a world that appears to be losing its mind.
Beyond the Reach of Recovery
Collapse, Ecology, and the Unforgiving Present
What The Body Already Knows
Somatic Intelligence and Industrial Civilisation
When Numbers Whisper Sweet Nothings
Mathematics, Meaning, and the Search for Intentionality
Everything Except Their Names
The accusation arrives early in the Bishkek Declaration, and it arrives with full force: strikes on Iranian territory violated the UN Charter, damaged international law, and put regional peace and stability at risk.
The Beginning of Our Collective Maturity
Collapsing Towards An Empathic Civilisation
Something Behind the Eyes
In the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the horror was never the alien.
The Thread That Frayed
Wholeness in a Civilisation Built on its Opposite
Beyond the Imperial Monoculture
Why Humanity Needs More Than One Story
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