Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Humanity has always lived in the shadow of its own ingenuity. Every leap in technological power has widened the gap between what we can do and what we can wisely control. Today, that ancient asymmetry has become the defining tension of our age. We are accelerating into a future shaped by artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, ...
What is power? The word appears everywhere. We speak of political power, purchasing power, horsepower, electrical power, power of attorney, statistical power. Each domain offers its own technical definition shaped by its particular concerns. But is there something fundamental beneath these variations? Something that unifies them? Rather than cataloguing the many meanings of power across ...
