Essays
Personal and professional writings where I explore ideas on the future of technology.
On sensing, memory, and the infrastructure that must exist before any of the futures we keep promising can arrive
What becomes possible when the physical world can perceive, remember, and eventually build itself
Confronting the risks of a world that never stops sensing
“The plot has become unresolvable, so a god is lowered onto the stage by crane. The machine delivers the god, and the audience is asked not to look at the crane.”
— on deus ex machina
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time.”
— E. O. Wilson, Consilience
“The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.”
— R. H. Tawney