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The Trillion-Dollar Resource Frontier Beyond Earth
Where Neurons Meet Silicon
Mitigation reduces emissions. Adaptation reduces the harm of warming already locked in. The IPCC's Sixth Assessment, published in 2022, says the world needs both, urgently, and that current adaptation finance is roughly an order of magnitude short.
A field manual for thinking about a warming world: what the IPCC scenarios mean, where the tipping points are, what adaptation buys, and what geoengineering can and cannot do. Sober, sourced, plural.
Virtual Replicas That Mirror the Physical World
A guide to the technologies that will run the next century — solar, fusion, storage, fission, hydrogen, geothermal — and the messy real-world transitions in between.
Eight billion people, more than half of them already in cities. By 2050, two-thirds. The shape of urbanism in the next century is the largest physical project our species will undertake. This is what it might look like.
A reasoned guide to automation, gig labor, the four-day week, the universal-basic-income experiments, and the awkward question of meaning after the job.
In one decade, gene editing went from Nobel-winning curiosity to FDA-approved cure. The next decade will decide what we are willing to do with the tools — and what we should refuse.
The technical and clinical effort to slow, halt, or reverse biological aging — distinct from treating individual age-related diseases.
A human brain runs on twenty watts. A GPU cluster training a frontier language model draws several megawatts. The gap is six orders of magnitude. Neuromorphic computing is the proposition that closing it is possible — and that the architectural recipe is brain-like rather than von-Neumann.
Not a prediction. A working hypothesis : that Homo sapiens is a transitional species, that the things which replace us may not be flesh, may not be singular, and may, by the conventions of personhood we now hold, not be people.
A Network Built on the Laws of Quantum Physics
A survey of the strange idea that intelligence will, at some point, accelerate itself out of our cognitive frame — and an attempt to separate which parts are math, which are extrapolation, and which are prophecy.
From Artemis crews on the lunar south pole to the gigascale fantasies of Dyson swarms — a sober tour of what we might do beyond the atmosphere, and what we will probably never do. Forecasts to 2050. Scenarios to 2100. Speculation beyond.
An engineering discipline applied to living systems — designing organisms or biological components to do specific tasks, with the same systematic approach electronics applies to circuits.
A cool-eyed survey of the movement that says human nature is not the finish line. From cochlear implants to mind uploads, what is now medicine, what is enhancement, and what is still pure manifesto?
The world is not running out of water; it is running out of cheap, clean, reliably-available water in the places people live. The rest is engineering, economics, and politics.
Systems matching or exceeding human cognitive performance across most economically valuable tasks .
Bypass eyes and ears. Read intent from cortex, write signals back. Once medical-only — now an arms race.
Pathways and scenarios. What is committed, what is contingent, and what remains a choice — across four canonical futures.
The defining infrastructure project of the century. Cheap solar, cheap batteries, an electrified everything — and a deployment problem the size of every grid on earth.
13 SLIDES · THE SCIENCE · THE PROJECTS · THE TIMELINE
From cutting DNA to rewriting it. A field-tour of base editors, prime editors, epigenetic switches, gene drives, and the engineered organisms that will define the next decade of biology.
A clinical-trial style tour of the hallmarks of aging, the interventions actually being tested in humans, and the honest limits of what biology will allow.
Classical bits are switches: 0 or 1, definite at every instant. A qubit is a quantum object whose state is a continuous combination — a superposition — of 0 and 1, collapsing only when measured.
A 13-slide field briefing on the next decade of physical AI: humanoid platforms, autonomous agriculture, and robotic surgery.
Mars · 2036 Briefing Becoming Multiplanetary. A sober tour of where humans go next — the Moon, Mars, and the very long road beyond. What is plausible. What is decades away. What is fantasy that still drives engineering today.