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Why Story, Not Science, is Our Best Hope for Surviving 2020

Photo by Frank McKenna on Unsplash The case for choosing fiction over data and identity politics We know a lot of stuff. And there’s so much more stuff, continuously generated, some of it brilliant, some of it noise. We’re living in a zettabyte era (a zettabyte equals 1 sextillion bytes or 1000 exabytes — 1 billion billion bytes). We […]

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Looking Back to a Kinder Future

Photo by Jonathan Borba from Pexels Vonnegut gave us more than an anti-war book; he gave us safe passage to our former selves It didn’t work out well for Lot’s wife. As you might recall, she was warned not to look back at the Almighty’s wrath. “But she did look back, and I love her for that, […]