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