The Double Edge

The Double Edge

Present Day, May 2026Every technology I have watched arrive has been a double edge, and it has taken me some time to arrive at a settled view about what this means and what the appropriate response to it is.The printing press. The steam engine. The telegraph. The...
Crown of Wires

Crown of Wires

Present Day, April 2026In Florence’s churches, the light arrived through stained glass and fell on stone floors that had been worn smooth by centuries of people coming to stand in the light. The quality of that light was specific: colored, diffused, carrying...
The Tower of Information

The Tower of Information

Present Day, March 2026The specific thing I want to say about the present moment and its relationship to knowledge is this: more information is not the same as more understanding, and the substitution of one for the other is its own kind of architecture of collapse.I...