Inspiration
Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe
“fungi knit together the lives of plants, animals and the Earth itself. It’s an information superhighway that speeds up interactions between a large, diverse population of individuals. It allows individuals who may be widely separated to communicate and help each other out.”
The Clock of the Long Now celebrates the power of long-term thinking and mankind’s insatiable thirst to solve life’s biggest problems.
How do we make sense of today’s political divisions? Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media, etc.
The Growing Case for Geoengineering:
As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially. Their reasoning: we just might get desperate enough to use this technology one day.
Dune by Frank Herbert
The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its “spice”.

Mad Max
A story which takes place in a not-too-distant dystopian future, when man’s most precious resource — oil — has been depleted and the world plunged into war, famine and financial chaos.


