Over coffee, Captain Fractal considers a civilisation whose communication systems increasingly reward the behaviours that undermine its survival. The machinery isn’t broken. That’s the problem.
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The flying car illustrates the peculiar absurdity of developing increasingly sophisticated means of getting somewhere while losing collective control over where we are going.
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Out of Phase: Under a Blood Moon
He noticed it first in the rhythm of things. Not the temperature, which always wandered, but the timing. Winter arrived on the calendar and not in the soil. Rain came hard and left quickly, as if it had somewhere else to be. Summer stretched, then stretched again, like a conversation that had lost its point […]
