What We Called the Future in 1998
The capsule promised us flying commutes and paperless offices. It got the loneliness half right and the technology almost entirely wrong.
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Science & Technology
Coverage of technology, complex systems, and their intersection with Thelemic thought and practice.
What the Restored Painting Loses
Every restoration is also an erasure - of dirt, yes, but also of the centuries the dirt was quietly recording.
What Grows in a Parking Lot
Give a parking lot five years of neglect and it will tell you, in weeds, exactly which species were only ever waiting for permission.
A Brief Taxonomy of Doorbells
Long before you open the door, the doorbell has already told you who is likely on the other side of it.
Elegies for Machines That Still Run
An elegy usually waits for the death. These were written for machines that still work, on the theory that grief can start early and be no less true for it.
