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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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The Roots of Progress
The Roots of Progress
Jason Crawford
Dirtbags Through the Ages
Dirtbags Through the Ages
Allison Epstein
Slow Boring
Slow Boring
Matthew Yglesias
Uncharted Territories
Uncharted Territories
Tomas Pueyo
Atlas of Wonders and Monsters
Atlas of Wonders and Monsters
Étienne Fortier-Dubois

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
15
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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