Society

We seek not to destroy capitalism, nor to reform it, but to transcend it – to consciously and rapidly evolve past it.

The goal of this book is thus to develop a new way of thinking about planetary futures that can help us create more useful and comprehensive maps of the possibility space.

This year, perhaps now more than ever, we need a taste of what policymaking underpinned by the radical imagination looks like.

This fall, as we face the most consequential elections of my lifetime (all 71 years of it), rights that working people once upon a time fought and died for — the eight-hour day, a legal minimum wage, protections against child labor — are, in effect, back on the ballot.

Rather than double down on a failing technological approach to living in this world, we can start walking away from modernity, and figure out new ways to live.

Modern humans have a Stockholm Syndrome relationship to technology, which has kidnapped us while convincing us it has our best interests in mind. But when one looks back at the history of plastics or the current frenzy around AI, it isn’t hard to see the insanity of doubling down on new technology to save us from previous technology.