Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory […]
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse
A quarter of the American population is now engaged in “guard labor”—defending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line. Economically, most of this disciplinary apparatus is […]
Why Common Ownership Is a Route to Social Transformation
The case for despair is made. Now let’s start to get out of the mess we’re in. “to be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing” […]
How Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic
Taiwan’s Initial Success Is a Model for the Rest of the World The guiding principle was not top-down control but mutual respect and cooperation. Privacy was carefully protected, and the […]
The rise of microchipping: are we ready for technology to get under the skin?
As implants grow more common, experts fear surveillance and exploitation of workers. Advocates say the concerns are irrational “It was like my body was online,” he said. “It was my […]