Ask anyone who has taken a high school econ class and they will tell you competition is vital for success and innovation. We tend to view it as a necessity. However, competition might be less of a cuisine and more like caffeine — something that quickens our pace and sharpens…

Either we will lament, or we will rejoice. It depends on what we do today during this critical time in AI development. The AI genie is out of the bottle, and there’s no way to put it back in. Entire industries will soon be revolutionized by robotics and AI. This…

How GameStop has revealed the weakest link in our economy The stock market is possibly the most egregious waste of enterprise in all of human history. We use it to measure the strength of our economy when in fact it represents our economy’s weakest link. Recently, members of the subReddit…

Democracy is in danger when we let our elected officials act like kings The first few days of the Biden Presidency have seen the new president reversing many of Trump’s policies and actions over the last 4 years. Many of them were things Trump had no legitimate legal authority to enact. …

Society 2.0 — Chapter 2 — Challenging Our Assumptions There is no good reason why our maps don’t look like this:

Introduction What I’m writing here could probably be better classified as Science Fiction than contemporary sociology. That is because there is an important context that is intrinsic to all of these ideas. …