Essays
Essays
Various essays, mostly thinking about society and the future.
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2012 Sep 12| The Clarke Horizon (part 1)
2012 Sep 13| The Clarke Horizon (part 2)
2013 Oct 06| The transparent society
2013 Oct 20| Unknown knowns
2016 Jun 21| The Kobayashi Maru
2016 Jun 22| The Prime Directive
2016 Sep 05| Te Urewera
2016 Oct 08| The challenge of a post-scarcity transition
2018 Jan 07| A hierarchy of needs for belief systems
2018 Jun 23| The Kobayashi Maru (redux)
2023 Jan 24| It’s time to explore
Newsletter archives
Newsletter archives
An archive of the Five Futures newsletter.
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2016 Aug 09| Camp Century
2016 Aug 15| A slow rate of reproduction
2016 Aug 21| I’m not saying it’s aliens…
2016 Sep 05| A matter of intense but mostly theoretical debate
2016 Sep 19| Enough behavioral flexibility to persist in a disturbed landscape
2016 Oct 01| When the sea came in and covered the land
2016 Oct 17| Pervasive and obligatory features
2016 Dec 18| And we will know him for a thousand years
2018 Jan 14| An Error of Scale
2018 Jan 20| Everything was stripped away
2018 Jan 28| The last remaining hominin
2018 Feb 11| Surprise must hide in secret worlds
2018 Feb 18| Something of adaptive value to human life
2018 Sep 23| Where Homo sapiens is headed
2018 Oct 03| Other decisions can be made