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I'm imagining a more beautiful future
Here’s the index of everything I’ve written so far.
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Recent posts

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Is this real or imagined?
Oblivion, Chapter 11
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Why I don't read modern journalism
Changing our media diet changes our perception of the world.
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Can we ever reach utopia?
Letters to my nemesis, part five.
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Is utopia created from the top down?
Letters to my nemesis, part three.
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How do we define utopia?
Letters to my nemesis, part one.
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What is the value of art in the age of AI?
A discussion about the film Zima Blue with Animation Obsessive.
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Animation Obsessive Staff
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The Elysian
The Elysian
Thinking through a better future (Mondays) and writing utopian fiction about it (Fridays)
Recommendations
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Slow Boring
Slow Boring
Matthew Yglesias
The Intrinsic Perspective
The Intrinsic Perspective
Erik Hoel
Atlas of Wonders and Monsters
Atlas of Wonders and Monsters
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Uncharted Territories
Uncharted Territories
Tomas Pueyo
Dirtbags Through the Ages
Dirtbags Through the Ages
Allison Epstein

Government

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A brief history of capitalism (& socialism & communism)
All in one essay. And explained using musical theater references for some reason.
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What if countries acted more like companies?
Like Singapore does.
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What if countries had to compete for citizens?
Just like companies compete for customers.
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Opening our borders will solve just about everything
Here's how.
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Capitalism

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This could be our economy in the year 2100
We could design a solarpunk future.
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We need to grow our economy to advance humanity
But that doesn't mean we need to destroy the environment making flying cars.
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We don't need to "degrow" the economy
To save the environment.
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Remote work could solve global poverty
Open the digital borders.
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Technology

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What is the value of art in the age of AI?
A discussion about the film Zima Blue with Animation Obsessive.
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Elle Griffin
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Animation Obsessive Staff
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Post Modern: Brain-Computer Interfaces
Listen now (11 mins) | On where we draw the line between the futurist and a Luddite.
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Post Modern: The Replicator
Listen now (10 mins) | On Star Trek's ideal of a post-scarcity economy.
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Post Modern: The Metaverse
Listen now (11 mins) | On whether we want to live in virtual worlds.
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Work & Leisure

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Remote work could solve global poverty
Open the digital borders.
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Will we return to craftwork?
Our hobbies used to be jobs—in many parts of the world they still are—now we're turning them into jobs again.
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Yes, the future should be analog
Except for the things that shouldn't be.
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Economic possibilities for our grandchildren (re-visited)
An annotated reading of John Maynard Keynes' 1930 lecture about what 2030 might look like.
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Philosophy

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We don’t need our political ideologies anymore
Just our political ideas.
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I'm studying all the utopian novels this year
And how modern thinkers are taking utopian ideals into the future.
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Humanism is my religion now
Thoughts on living a beautiful life.
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I'm so over dead French writers
On finding less existential literature.
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Fiction

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Is this real or imagined?
Oblivion, Chapter 11
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In which Elysia remembers her past
Oblivion, Chapter 10
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We must face the truth
Oblivion, Chapter 9
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Why do you want paradise?
Oblivion, Chapter 8
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