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Moving the Big Boat Did Not Magically Fix the Global Economy

The big boat may be unstuck, but our deeply technologized, infinitely complex economy is just beginning to get jammed

8 min readMar 31, 2021

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Moving the Big Boat Did Not Magically Fix the Global Economy

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What Really Caused the Supply Chain Mess Over PPE Last Year

14 min readFeb 17, 2021

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Healthcare worker wearing PPE.

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‘Cyberpunk’ Anticipated the High-Tech Assault on Democracy We’re All Living Through

If only we’d have listened 30 years ago

9 min readJan 27, 2021

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‘Cyberpunk’ Anticipated the High-Tech Assault on Democracy We’re All Living Through

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The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

Vast systems, from automated supply chains to high-frequency trading, now undergird our daily lives — and we’re losing control of all of…

10 min readNov 30, 2020

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A photo collage of a shipping dock, a graph of a stock market activity, and an automated warehouse

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Defund the Police, but Don’t Replace It With Surveillance Tech

In order to stop a power grab from surveillance companies and tech giants, we need to define what policing is

7 min readJun 24, 2020

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Defund the Police, but Don’t Replace It With Surveillance Tech

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How Science Fiction Imagined the 2020s

What ‘Blade Runner,’ cyberpunk, and Octavia Butler had to say about the age we’re entering now

11 min readJan 17, 2020

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How Science Fiction Imagined the 2020s

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The Water Line

That’s what she told me. For real.

5 min readJul 27, 2015

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The Water Line

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Special Economic Zone

Fiction from the supply chain

15 min readJun 26, 2015

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Special Economic Zone

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The future of ed tech is here, it’s just not evenly distributed

Using design fiction to cut through the relentless TEDTalk-like optimism of ed tech marketing

9 min readJun 18, 2014

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The future of ed tech is here, it’s just not evenly distributed

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Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’: the most important science fiction movie never made

Before ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Alien,’ a failed project would change Hollywood forever

6 min readMar 5, 2014

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Tim Maughan

Tim Maughan

Writer. Debut novel INFINITE DETAIL out now on FSG. Bylines at BBC, Motherboard, New Scientist. http://timmaughanbooks.com

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