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1.3 - The Summer of Our Discontent

1.3 - The Summer of Our Discontent

While the moral decay of American society is an over-discussed topic, this summer has made me think a lot about Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent. The book previously felt a little ham-handed and lacking the subtly I have personally experienced in observing moral decay, but recent events and

1.2 - Kids Are Alright…?

1.2 - Kids Are Alright…?

To have kids or not is so obviously a personal choice that it’s been surprising to see so much debate around it. It seems simple, on the face of it: If you want kids, go for it. If not, that’s cool too. Obviously though, it is not really

1.1 - Don’t Summon the Demon

1.1 - Don’t Summon the Demon

With all the current concern about AI regulation and lawsuits, especially in regards to copyright, fair use, and disinformation, I find myself immersed in a little time-swapping exercise. I’ve recently been reading a few books about the early days of tech when it became a part of the wider

1.0 - I Would Have Saved the World… But There was a Patent Infringement

1.0 - I Would Have Saved the World… But There was a Patent Infringement

I would have saved the world... but there was a patent infringement. Fine, it may sound dramatic, and obviously no one would actually choose to not save the world just to avoid an IP lawsuit, and that is the problem. They don’t know they may be making that decision.

To Accelerate, e/acc Must Die

To accelerate is to constantly evolve, adapt, and change. It is to be willing to abandon the comfortable known as new ideas are formulated, new knowledge discovered, better technology developed, and more powerful memes generated. It is dynamic and unsentimental. It is also feared. People inherently want to build a

AI as Cultural Necrophiliac

Cultural Necrophilia and AI

Cultural Necrophilia is the act of digging up dead pieces of our culture, re-animating them as lifeless simulacra of what they once were, then selling them to either the poor nostalgic bastards who gave the originals meaning in the first place, or to those who only ever experienced them as

Why Accelerate? Why Now?

Why Accelerate? Why Now?

If you care about the future of humanity and choose to work toward the betterment of our species, you must make a decision about which path we should travel and how you are going to help get us on it. We currently face an inflection point, a cliff ahead, and

Futuristic cyborg with many wires and information flowing into his head

Verge Overload

It is not a controversial statement to say we have an information overload problem. One has simply to exist in modernity to feel it. It is the water in which we swim. So fully immersed, we forget that, just as we cannot breathe under water, we cannot think while submerged

What's All This, Then?

What's All This, Then?

Verge/Override is a collection of essays and media broadly focused on information and the future. The naively earnest purpose of this project (as well as of my company, Vergint) is to explore ways to help people communicate better and collaborate more effectively, so we might create the conditions for