Category: Updates

Longevity policy is the public question of how long people live in decent health, who pays for the years of illness, and how work and retirement rules fit those …

Agent-to-agent commerce is the practice of software agents buying and selling discrete jobs from each other: summarize this packet, label these images, fetch a priced data slice, or run …

Thomas Szasz (1920 to 2012) was a psychiatrist and academic writer whose books and essays argued that much of what modern societies call mental illness is better understood through …

Longevity escape velocity is a forecast idea about aging: the claim that if therapies improve life expectancy fast enough, each year of research may add more than a year …

Human knowledge has always depended upon storage. Clay tablets, libraries, printing presses, microfilm, hard drives, websites, and cloud servers have each helped preserve information beyond the moment when it …

Educational wikis have always had an interesting promise. They can function as shared spaces for learning, teaching, research, experimentation, and the gradual organization of knowledge. Unlike a traditional textbook, …

IPFS and Arweave are often mentioned in the same conversations about decentralized publishing, censorship resistance, and preserving information outside of traditional platforms. They overlap in some important ways, but …

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 …

What if aging became a problem we solved rather than a fate we endured? Longevity escape velocity, the hypothesis that medical progress could eventually extend lifespan faster than time …

Artificial intelligence and automation are often discussed in terms of disruption, displacement, and control. The dominant narrative frames them as forces that will concentrate power, eliminate privacy, and render …