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The AI Pin That Takes Away Worlds
Why the AI Pin has no chance of replacing the smartphone
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Beyond Cities: A Futurist Manifesto
Are we brainwashed by old-world values and aesthetics?
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Playboy's MetaMansion: A Desperate Bid for Relevance in the Digital Age
The Playboy MetaMansion is here, and boy does it look lame. The real Playboy Mansion was the epicenter of American hedonism. It symbolized literal…
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October 2023
Sex Machines Spelling Armageddon
In the early 2000s, I remember watching some random comedian on TV perform a bit about the craziness of technology. At the time, the internet still…
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Hamas vs the Story of Human Flourishing
To be alive means to play a character in a story. Unless you’re a total non-player-character, you have some agency over where you live, who you hang out…
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Pleasuring Your Digital Clone and the Pursuit of Happiness
Black Mirror but with benevolent gods
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Last Laugh at Bohemian Grove
In 1999, Alex Jones and Jon Ronson snuck into Bohemian Grove to spy on—as Jones might say—the evil globalists. Although Jones and Ronson were total…
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September 2023
The Anti-Woke Doomer’s Challenge for Civilization
Societal decadence is a kind of filter that civilization much pass through
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Open Letter to Cities of the Future
A startup city, to really come to life, needs to have stories.
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Do We Need an Ozempic Shot that Motivates People?
Overdosing on motivation could have disastrous unintended consequences.
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August 2023
Jane Goodall Needs an E/Acc Intervention
Tech optimism can prevent an Avengers-level threat
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Poor Man South of Richmond vs. Fake Inc.
Raw, authentic art will always cut the deepest.
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