Somaliland’s poets have toppled governments and ushered in peace. | Continue reading
Conflict between humans and elephants in Sri Lanka is complex and ancient, but listening to the people closest to it reveals much about building a collaborative multispecies future. | Continue reading
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AI doesn’t have to be a job destroyer. It offers us the opportunity to extend expertise to a larger set of workers. | Continue reading
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An overlooked corner of the Arizona desert is emblematic of the tough decisions that line the path toward the renewable-powered future we so badly need. | Continue reading
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Earth’s acoustic environment has been profoundly altered by noise, but it’s not too late to change course. | Continue reading
What if this bog-standard corner of England is actually full of adventure, nature, wildness, surprises, silence, perspective — if only I bothered to go out and look? | Continue reading
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In the future, quantum computing may provide several ways to detect cancers before they pose a serious threat. | Continue reading
We still don’t understand the role language plays in consciousness. The future of AI may upend what little we know. | Continue reading
The supranational integration of autonomous states in the EU fits the future better than the U.N. | Continue reading
Should Beijing successfully wean the world off the U.S. dollar, it would reshape the global economy and geopolitical landscape. | Continue reading
How and why did the phenomenon of global tourism become so problematic? And where are we all heading next? | Continue reading
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Faced with novel collective and planetary threats like the climate crisis, the EU’s layered architecture provides a model of international cooperation while still respecting disparate peoples’ independence. | Continue reading
Maybe what we need is not just a new form of poultry farming but a complete revolution in how we relate to meat. | Continue reading
Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.” | Continue reading
Culture wars have now entered geopolitics. | Continue reading
The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence has mostly been focusing on a technique called deep learning. It might be time to reconsider. | Continue reading
The messianic idea that permeates Western political thinking — that a person or technology will deliver us from the tribulations of the present — distracts us from the hard work that must be done to build a better world. | Continue reading
The same crypto tools presently being used to bypass the international order could instead become the means of architecting a better one. | Continue reading
Why has disruption been elevated as a virtue to the point where it’s become orthodox to be heterodox? It’s a symptom of the erosion of trust in institutions. | Continue reading
The precise odor of the divine has eluded humans for millennia, but that hasn’t stopped us from seeking it in the oddest places. | Continue reading
A geo-civilizational order can’t survive without cooperation. | Continue reading
Recalling the Italian futurists’ embrace of aggressive disruption. | Continue reading
Can deep learning systems learn to manipulate symbols? The answers might change our understanding of how intelligence works and what makes humans unique. | Continue reading
Putting community back into communication requires the checks and balances of republics. | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s takeover bid for Twitter raises important questions about whether social media platforms are political technologies that must be governed by democratic norms and principles. | Continue reading
Insects appear to be more intelligent and emotionally complex than we give them credit for. Perhaps, new research suggests, they are even conscious. | Continue reading
The conception of free will as the continual creation of unpredictable novelty can lead us away from social-media-driven anxieties that often cripple our decision-making. | Continue reading
Community requires ritual and narrative. | Continue reading
Thinking differently about how to design the digital platforms that structure our lives can help lead us on a journey to improve society and become better versions of ourselves. | Continue reading
The 10,000-year clock is neither a ‘frightening’ ‘distraction,’ as its critics scorn, nor the ‘admirable objective’ its fans claim. It’s something else — a monument to long-term thinking that can unlock a deeper and more thoughtful spirit of interpretive patience. | Continue reading
Mass tree-planting programs in the desert often cause lasting damage to the ecosystems they are purportedly trying to repair. | Continue reading
Of course, art has always been toy money for the rich to play with. We just made it more ubiquitous, more efficient, more technologically mediated. We made it faster. | Continue reading
How tech uses the promise of endless innovation to ward off regulating even its present-day harms. | Continue reading
The radical idea that everything has elements of consciousness is reemerging and breathing new life into a cold and mechanical cosmos. | Continue reading
“The price of individualism has proved to be the loss of privacy.” | Continue reading
What happens to a community and ecosystem at the nexus of geopolitical tensions and climate change? And can 6,000 years of history save them? | Continue reading
Landlords have made a fortune on climbing land values. What if land was held by the public instead? | Continue reading
To tackle planetary problems like the climate crisis and pandemics, we have to tear down old hierarchies and build new, fluid networks of people, cities and organizations. | Continue reading
Kai-Fu Lee explains how intelligent machines will master context, enable precision medicine — and use vast amounts of energy for computation. | Continue reading
Sci-fi enables us to think about science and religion as mutually supportive elements of what it means to be human. | Continue reading
As with evolution, mindless learning drives intelligent machines. | Continue reading
Why all life limits certain kinds of selfishness. | Continue reading