#must read


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why sex robots won't satisfy incels

What do sex workers, psychologists, and engineers think about futurists' and pundits' ideas of sci-fi style robot brothels to help angry celibate men?
why sex robots won't satisfy incels

how the gig economy ate the post-industrial world and how to escape its clutches

We should take the gig economy's rapid growth and global impact as a warning that we need to make some major changes, and we need to make them very quickly.
how the gig economy ate the post-industrial world and how to escape its clutches

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why we need to return to the moon and do the other things

Space is becoming a growing commercial industry. And we need to start heavily investing in it to save ourselves from our worst decision makers.
why we need to return to the moon and do the other things

at the mountains of political madness

I tried writing about politics for a year and a half. My experience was eye-opening in the worst possible ways...
at the mountains of political madness

why the earth won't remember us fondly

Scientists are debating how humanity will be remembered millions of years from now and it won't be by our sprawling cities and historical sites. It will be by our pollution, garbage, and weapons.
why the earth won't remember us fondly

social media and the monsters within

Social media didn't change us for the worse, it merely enabled us to be as bad as we wanted to be and our lack of impulse control would allow.
social media and the monsters within