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Power Down: A Scenario

Bronze age collapse on steroids

5d ago

Power Down: A Scenario

5d ago

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2030: Our Runaway Train Falls Off the Seneca Cliff

Exponential growth rarely ends well — OK, it never does so. But how does it end then? Well, to use Ernest Hemingway’s beaten to death…

Sep 23

2030: Our Runaway Train Falls Off the Seneca Cliff

Sep 23

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The End of the Great Stagnation

Although GDP figures suggest otherwise, people of western (OECD) economies are in fact trapped in a great stagnation lasting for fifty…

Sep 16

The End of the Great Stagnation

Sep 16

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Back to a Carless Future

Common wisdom holds that if oil is ever to become really scarce, fuel prices would reach astronomical levels and long lines would form in…

Sep 9

Back to a Carless Future

Sep 9

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Downslope

The 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 26

Downslope

Aug 26

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An 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 19

An AI Takeover (Not)

Aug 19

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Deep Sea Delusions

“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”

Aug 12

Deep Sea Delusions

Aug 12

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Has Peak Oil Become Self-Evident Yet?

Only electrification can save us — or maybe not

Aug 5

Has Peak Oil Become Self-Evident Yet?

Aug 5

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The Productivity Trap

Labor 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 29

The Productivity Trap

Jul 29

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Time of Troubles

World war three seems to be cancelled. The collapse of western institutions and states not.

Jul 22

Time of Troubles

Jul 22

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