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The End of the World As We Know It (and I'm rather annoyed)

Fast Company's Co.Exist just put up my latest piece for them: "The End Of The World Isn’t As Likely As Humans Fighting Back." It's the latest in my series of short essays under the working title "Stop Complaining About the...

Doom & Gloom

IEET's Mike Treder interviewed me on Bloggingheads.TV this week, and the video is now available. It runs about 45 minutes. Egad, it's depressing. Sorry about that. First time I've done one of these, and something that leapt out at me...

Expiration Date

Slate's Josh Levin kicks off a series of articles on the possible future dissolution of the United States today with a piece about how a few different "futurologists" see the possibility. In "How Is America Going To End?", he talks...

Pandemonium

So, it's been quiet around here. Too quiet. I can explain. I've been sick the past four days or so, and have been keeping down. But since I had to make a one-day run down to San Diego for...

Aspirational Futurism

One of the secondary effects of the latest set of crises to grip the world is the rise of essays and articles from various insightful folks, laying out scenarios of what the future will look like in an era of...

Playing Catch-Up

Okay, back from DC and a long weekend trip away. Rested and ready, as it were. Here are a few items piled up in the old Intertube drift net. More serious stuff coming. • My Old Workplace: Stephen Colbert discusses...

The Earth Will Be Just Fine, Thank You

The grand myth of environmentalism is that it's all about saving the Earth. It's not. The Earth will be just fine. Environmentalism is all about saving ourselves. That may seem a bit counter-intuitive; after all, the Earth is certainly central...

Yeats Signals

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;...

Read These:

After empire, then what? -- Mike Treder looks at what happens when empires fall. International peace, security, and stable all are strengthened by economic ties; financial integration and interdependence tend to promote harmony and tolerance. But if we experience a...

What the Heck?

Taking a quick scan through my logs, I noticed something odd. Like many blogs, much of my traffic comes from people searching for particular terms. Normally, the searches that lead OtF are for topics I've written about (geoengineering, metaverse, etc.)...

Tuesday Topsight, December 18, 2007

Hey there, folks out there in Internet-land -- do you find these "topsight" posts useful or interesting? I sometimes puzzle over whether the various individual entries would be better off as individual short posts, rather than as a catch-all post....

Earth Day Essay

I've gone ahead and contributed an essay to WorldChanging's "Earth Day" series, a brief set of scenarios based on the matrix shown above. It's very much a high-level view of potential Earth futures, and is meant more as a...

Wednesday Topsight, January 24, 2007

Let's see, lots of apocaphilia lately... • Five Minutes to Midnight: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a well-known icon, shown here: the ticking clock, counting down to midnight. Throughout the Cold War, as tensions between the superpowers rose...

Eschatological Taxonomy -- Now Suitable for Framing

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An Eschatological Taxonomy

Eschatology: (noun) The study of the end of the world.Taxonomy: (noun) A classification in a hierarchical system. What do we mean when we talk about the "end of the world?" It's a term that get thrown around a bit too...

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