BBack to a Carless FutureCommon wisdom holds that if oil is ever to become really scarce, fuel prices would reach astronomical levels and long lines would form in…3d ago173d ago17
BDownslopeThe fossil fuel bonanza is slowly coming to an end. Not with a bang, mind you, but with a whimper: presenting us with a long winding road…Aug 2614Aug 2614
BAn AI Takeover (Not)There is now a widespread belief that AI will inevitably surpass us in terms of intelligence, eventually causing the destruction of…Aug 1922Aug 1922
BDeep Sea Delusions“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”Aug 1213Aug 1213
BThe Productivity TrapLabor productivity has nothing to do with labor. It was rarely a question of an average worker devising a clever way how to make more…Jul 2922Jul 2922
BTime of TroublesWorld war three seems to be cancelled. The collapse of western institutions and states not.Jul 2214Jul 2214
BThis Civilization Is Not Interested in Saving ItselfOne of my favorite tropes — used by activists of all stripes— is ‘acting like a rock in a stream’. According to this metaphor a handful of…Jul 828Jul 828
B2019: Peak (Western) CivilizationAccording to the plot of the movie, The Matrix, robots had won the war on humanity and put each and every one of us into a virtual reality…Jul 129Jul 129