- Taking back the wheel. In the future heralded by Silicon Valley, cars will fly and labor will be disposable. But none of this is inevitable. It’s a political choice—that we can still reject.
- Engineering the climate could cost us the Earth. A political technology, geoengineering belongs to the institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action and reducing the urgency for structural change.
- Scientists assessed the options for growing nuclear power. They are grim. For better or worse, renewable energy is the name of the game for the next few decades.
- Artificial Saviors. An increasingly powerful and influential social group is hard-coding its biases into the software running our societies.
- Pulling the magical lever. Techno-utopian visions can’t be used as inspiration for the creation of anything but an upper-class gated community sucking out resources and labour from peripheries and keeping the unfortunate poor out.
- What Happened in the Dark: Puerto Rico’s Year of Fighting for Power. “Could @elonmusk go in and rebuild Puerto Rico’s electricity system with independent solar & battery systems?”
All links via Uneven Earth’s August 2018 newsletter.
