Photo credit: Mikkel Storm Yesterday we left the Borderland, the Swedish regional Burning Man event. I found the event surprisingly unenjoyable. As we drove away, I composed this blog post in my head to make sense of the experience, reviewing the list of my disappointments and translating them into positive desires. So for future reference, […]
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I just woke up from one of those dreams that are so completely literal, utterly lacking in any symbolism, just a straightforward display of my subconscious fears & preoccupations. We were at a really excellent gathering. I had that exquisite feeling of being “in my tribe”. I was hosting a workshop. It was going well:
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The robots are coming, and things really are different this time. This technology is genuinely something new under the sun. But not everything about the imminent disruption of labor by humanoid robotics is novel. We’ve seen versions of this movie before. We can use the Seba Technology Disruption Framework (STDF) to predict how the story
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We are in the midst of a disruption in transportation that will have profound implications for the global economy, geopolitics, the environment and more. China, the world’s largest automobile producer since the late 2000s, has embraced new energy vehicles, particularly battery-electric vehicles in a way that no other country in the world has.
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In RethinkX’s 2020 Energy report, Rethinking Energy 2020-2030, Adam Dorr and Tony Seba wrote, “It is both physically possible and economically affordable to meet 100% of electricity demand with the combination of solar, wind, and batteries (SWB).” Despite predictable skepticism from mainstream analysts and incumbent interests, the data show that SWB has already begun to
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In the 15 years between 1907 and 19022, horses went from providing 95% of all private vehicle-miles traveled on American roads to less than 20%. In areas like New York City, which led in the adoption of automobiles, the disruption of transportation was swift and transformative – as shown in the images below. In St.
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Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn. I’ve speculated on the Structure of Metamodern Religion in terms of its philosophical and coordination layers. But how might all of this make a difference in your life? In order for Metamodern Religion to become a lived reality and actually have an impact on people’s lives, it needs
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Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn. Global problems from climate change to arms races need global, or better yet, planetary solutions. Religion may be able to defeat Moloch, where all international treaties have failed before. If it is to address the crises outlined in the previous part, Metamodern religion needs to enable Cosmo-local coordination.
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Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn. In the previous part of this series, I have presented a broad definition of religion as the social fabric that orients culture through integration. I also made the case that in order to solve the Metacrisis and the Meaning Crisis, we will need to replace our deficient Western
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