Author: Michael Ten
Git is already decentralized in one important sense. Anyone who clones a repository receives a copy of its history, and anyone can create a fork without asking a central …
AI agents are becoming more capable, more persistent, and more connected to the tools people actually use. They can write code, manage files, monitor systems, communicate across platforms, and …
Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz used the phrase “problems in living” to describe many of the personal, social, moral, and practical difficulties that people face. A problem in living might involve …
When people experience profound emotional distress, one of the first questions often asked is whether they have a mental illness. That question has become so common that many people …
Universal Basic Income has become one of the most widely discussed economic ideas of the past decade. Supporters see it as a way to reduce poverty, improve financial security, …
There is a growing feeling across society that something is deeply wrong with the current economic system. Many people are exhausted, financially strained, spiritually disconnected, and uncertain about the …
Many discussions about post-scarcity sound strangely cold. The future is often described as a world managed by giant automated systems, guided by artificial intelligence, where material needs are solved …
Artificial intelligence is steadily moving beyond the role of a passive tool. Increasingly, systems are being designed to make decisions, take actions, schedule tasks, write code, generate media, manage …
Most people think of poor user interface design as an annoyance. A button is hard to find. A page loads slowly. A form asks for the same information twice. …
Marriage is often discussed as if it must be one thing for everyone: a legal status, a romantic bond, a family structure, a spiritual covenant, a tax category, and …