Opinion
That Thing in the Desert
Burning Man takes place in August out in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. There, it is baking hot during the day and bitingly cold at night. Raging dust storms and furious white outs. Gale […]
Year: 2020
Book Reviews
Review: The Future is Faster Than You Think
We’ve seen more change in the last 100 years than in the previous 1000 years. The rate of change isn’t slowing down. Ray Kurzweil — described by Bill Gates as one of the best predictors […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems” by Fritjof Capra
What the human species faces at this point is primarily a crisis of perception. Many of the global challenges we face arise out of a fundamentally problematic understanding of reality that is harming the biosphere […]
Essays
Do we Live in a Simulation? – The Search for a Source Code
The simulation hypothesis proposes that all of reality (including human society, the Earth and all the goings-on in the rest of the universe) is, in fact, an artificial simulation – that everything is part of […]