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writer, speaker, maker, curator. former editor-in-chief and co-creator, and . contemplating futures near and far

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    Aug 2

    Nature spirits and machine gods: by me on the return of old gods and the birth of new faiths, for :

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  2. Aug 21

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    Bagatelle in B major Piccadilly line, London
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  3. Aug 18

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    Aug 15

    This is a moth with trompe l’oeil scales. It’s wimg is a flat surface

    初めて見た······流石の完成度だな
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  5. Aug 12

    Connor Wood considers one theme from my piece on future religion - the comeback of old gods - in depth and draws a chilling conclusion: "the hypothetical large-scale return of ethnic religion seems to imply the decline of civilizational-level cooperation"

    Is the of in the past? A reflection on the growth of ethnic, pre-Axial spiritual practices, re: 's recent article in the .
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  6. Aug 10

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  7. Aug 8

    Altercation at the playground with group of six-year-olds seeking total dominion over the playhouse. Me: it's not up to you to decide who can come in. You have to share 6yo spokeschild: we have a right to privacy you know

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  8. Aug 8

    Or, of course, they just didn't want to talk to me😰

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  9. Aug 8

    Train this morning. Realised as I got off that I had been in touching distance of a former colleague to my left and a friend to my right. None of us had noticed. All of us had been on our phones

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  10. Aug 2

    It's also the first I've written for eight years! And both this one and the last one were commissioned by the same editor, (this is the previous one: )

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  11. Aug 2

    This is the latest instalment of a cracking series on the deep future, covering everything from civilisational collapse to post-natural evolution, as well as the challenges of thinking and planning for the long term

    This year I commissioned a season of articles for about the long-view of humanity, called Deep Civilisation, which has reached more than 3m people. Thank you to everyone who contributed, and to all those who read & shared! Go deep, dive in below👇👇
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  12. Jul 28

    At a rave for under-10s, where I am sure just played Male Stripper by Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish. The instrumental version...

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  13. Jul 24

    Watching a world-renowned philosopher go down a rocky waterslide. On the path nearby, a dead mole holds its tiny claws out in appeal to the sky

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  14. Jul 23

    Coffee break at , listening to two physicists having a robust exchange of views on the emergence of time. I lost the thread of the argument long ago but am on tenterhooks to see if it ends with them flinging crockery or high-fiving

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  15. Jul 23

    Some heavy lifting going on here to avoid using the word "teabag"

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  16. Jul 23

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  17. Jul 21

    Free for a few more hours!

    For thousands of years, we could only get to the moon by using our imaginations - and boy, did we use our imaginations. LUNATIC FABLES, a new ebook edited by and me, collects the best of those imaginary voyages. FREE on Kindle for
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  18. Jul 21

    Started the day by leaving , ending it by arriving at , with a family thing in the middle. Oof

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  19. Jul 21

    The Monty Hall Problem, but with festival toilets

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  20. Jul 20

    50 years ago, the Eagle had just started its descent to the moon. But before that, voyagers got there by waterspout, geese, hippogriffs, dreams, balloons, antigravity and being shot out of a bloody big cannon. Read about 'em all in LUNATIC FABLES

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