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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

Mar 31, 2021

Moving the Big Boat Did Not Magically Fix the Global Economy

Mar 31, 2021

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What Really Caused the Supply Chain Mess Over PPE Last Year

Feb 17, 2021

Healthcare worker wearing PPE.

Feb 17, 2021

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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

Jan 27, 2021

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

Jan 27, 2021

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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…

Nov 30, 2020

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

Nov 30, 2020

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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

Jun 24, 2020

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

Jun 24, 2020

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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

Jan 17, 2020

How Science Fiction Imagined the 2020s

Jan 17, 2020

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The Water Line

That’s what she told me. For real.

Jul 27, 2015

The Water Line

Jul 27, 2015

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Special Economic Zone

Fiction from the supply chain

Jun 26, 2015

Special Economic Zone

Jun 26, 2015

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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

Jun 18, 2014

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

Jun 18, 2014

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

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

Mar 5, 2014

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

Mar 5, 2014

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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