There’s time yet to strip from existence the tattered rags of “ordinary” we’ve dyed and draped over it. The rags will surely smother it and just as surely humanity will grieve. Grief is inevitable when, where Love was due, there was much using and hedging of bets. (There’s always Mars.) Continue reading Mirror, mirror on the wall… (eco-hacking AI)
AI is the newfangled technological curveball that invites us to stop—and to resolve if we want to draw a line or to obey its summons. Continue reading Why I am not going to consult AI
A few days ago, in London, I was strolling along a nondescript stretch of pavement, in the direction of a farmers’ market, when I hit my head on the branch of a tree. It was one of those collisions where you find yourself poking at the point of contact in expectation of blood and other subcutaneous leakage Continue reading Inconveniences at the farmers’ market
How did we as a humanity lose touch with what is the most precious thing of all—our home planet and our relationship with it? How could we (let) unwind the breathtaking beauty of this Earth, the onetime gift of a living planet, and our love for our Earthling kin? Continue reading The discourse of COVID vaccination and the sovereign technological fix
As someone with serious misgivings about many technological ‘advances’, I do find there to be something oddly amusing in the resilience of the QWERTY keyboard. Continue reading Technoscepticism and the machine-proof Muir
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