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Starts With A Bang
Can the Drake equation’s final term predict humanity’s demise?
No civilization, no matter how successful, can last forever. What does the non-detection of intelligent aliens mean for our own longevity?
Ethan Siegel
A colorful map of the United States with state boundaries replaced by regions labeled with various unrelated names and entities.
Strange Maps
America’s post-apocalyptic maps reveal eerily familiar fault lines
In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.
Frank Jacobs
A collage featuring server racks, a robotic hand reaching for a human hand, and network diagrams, with the text “The Night Crawler” at the top—an homage to Eliezer Yudkowsky’s explorations of AI and human connection.
Business
Will AI save us or destroy us?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
The Past
Why Mikhail Gorbachev let the Soviet Union dissolve quietly into history
To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.
Gary Gerstle
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