Dark Edge

Nothing better illustrates the utter mindboggling craziness of neoclassical economics, than its Nobel laureate in environmental economics.

The mess we’re in was not only foreseeable; it was foreseen. In 1972 a landmark paper was published: The Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972), hereafter simply called Limits. It’s been called “the most influential science paper of the last 50 years”.

Is it possible to maintain digital autonomy and still work with AI? To find out, I experimented with a privacy-preserving open source AI solution for working with your personal files. The results were underwhelming.

Welcome back to Dark Edge, my future-oriented blog, tracking the unfolding of the polycrisis. I write about systems resilience in the face of collapse, and digital autonomy as a way to take back control over the technology that surrounds us.