A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…
Why We Need the Jetsons and Solarpunk
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Peter Thiel’s famous lament captures the disappointment of those of us raised on mid-20th-century technological optimism.
This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
The story of how one metric has changed the way you see the world
The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth
What economists around the world get wrong about the future.
The Modern Moloch
On the streets of early 20th-century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside and play in the streets,” all day. And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year. Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine.
On technological optimism and technological pragmatism
"There are no guarantees that things are going to turn out very well for anyone.”
On technological optimism and technological pragmatism
"There are no guarantees that things are going to turn out very well for anyone.”
On technological optimism and technological pragmatism
"There are no guarantees that things are going to turn out very well for anyone.”
Don't Just Fact-Check Misinformation. First, Understand The Value It Holds. A Conversation w Researchers Michael Simeone & Kristy Roschke
Podcast Episode · Why Should I Trust You? · June 25 · 1h 7m
How Technology Grows (a Restatement of Definite Optimism)
The deepest bias in American intellectual society; a new Moby-Dick; the US isn't making the best robots; plastics; process knowledge as industrial deepening
Another now: dispatches from an alternative present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like?…
Welcome to the Millennial Midlife Crisis
As we enter our 40s, we’re being forced to confront something awful — not our mortality. Our finances.
Pensioners bet on a lifetime cruise. They ended up in a Cambodian scam town
Many passengers on the Odyssey hoped to spend the rest of their lives at sea but high oil prices got in the way
Thanks for killing the planet, boomers!
The world as we know it is ending, and the indifference by Americans, politicians and mainstream press is maddening
Capturing our Attention
What are the harms of misinformation? It’s widely believed that it causes false belief, including false beliefs in quite bizarre claims. I argue that this threat is greatly exaggerated: while plaus...
