Archive - tomorrow's mess

Am I Anti-Tech?

Or do I just have standards? Part 1.

Jul 14

Anticipatory Deregulation

How digital bandits evolve into digital tyrants

Jul 2

June 2025

How to Legislate in a Half-Known World

Why lawmakers should act on a “rational basis review” of the available evidence, rather than waiting for definitive proof.

Published on After Babel • Jun 18

On Abundance and a World of Silicon Plenty

Just gesturing at a hopeful future isn’t enough to make it so

Jun 10

May 2025

A Field Guide to AGI Hype

Whose opinions on AI should you question — and why you should care even if you normally avoid AI in the news

May 21

The AI Moratorium Gambit

How tech companies buried a decade of immunity in the federal budget bill

May 15

April 2025

Montessori Toys and the Business of Vulnerability

A Coda on Careless People

Apr 10

March 2025

Innovation and Myth

How America’s tech oligarchs are all hat and no cattle

Mar 24

Circuit boards, free love, and the origin of an ideology

Mar 14

November 2024

Welcome to Tomorrow’s Mess

Join me as I pick through the shards of what tech has broken in society, seek how we might fix things that are not yet beyond repair, and look around…

Nov 29, 2024

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