Tag: technocracy
The Lost World
I. Opening the Airlock While I was in Arizona last week (running a study group for this year's Arizona Winter School on perfectoid spaces), I took the opportunity to visit another world, 50 minutes outside of Tucson. Dreamt up by a group…
What's wrong with the world?
In 1910, G.K. Chesterton (one of my favorite authors -- I highly recommend The Man Who Was Thursday and the Father Brown mysteries) diagnosed all the world's problems. You can read his famous diagnosis, What's Wrong With the World , at P…
Biospheres
This is Biosphere 1: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2048"] Photo Credit: The NASA Deep Space Climate Observatory. [/caption] And this is Biosphere 2: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] Photo Credit: Wikipedia User Joh…
Rationalia, USA
In June 2016, Neil deGrasse Tyson proposed (not entirely seriously, as this series of tweets should make obvious) the creation of a new country: Rationalia, governed by the dictum " All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence ."…
Weapons of Math Destruction
I've just finished reading Cathy O'Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction , which I highly recommend. (One notable feature of the book is that the skull and cross-bones on the cover is the second known example of mathematical piracy .)…