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Future Tense

A Z Mackay

Pattern recognition from the edge of what's possible. Weekly essays on how technology rewrites being human.

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Conscience as Line Item

A supply-chain-risk designation sounds like something from a warehouse inspection report. Bad firmware in a router. A pallet of screws that does not meet spec. In March, the Pentagon applied that phrase to Anthropic’s Claude products. To a...

13 days ago
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The first phrase that felt too small for the fight was “supply chain risk.” That is warehouse language, vendor language, language you expect around bad firmware or an unreliable subcontractor.

The first phrase that felt too small for the f...

13 days ago
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The Vacuum Bubble

The real energy source is belief.

Casimir Inc. did not announce a better battery. That would have been too ordinary, too trapped in the old humiliations of chemistry: degradation, replacement, charging cycles, mining, cost. Better batterie...

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Research Notes for The Vacuum Bubble

I began with a question that felt almost too neat.

I began with a question that felt almost too neat. What happens when a company claims it can turn the quantum vacuum into a commercial power source, and the claim arrives dressed like norm...

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The Living Pharmacy

When your medicine has a life of its own, who’s hosting whom?

Researchers gave bacteria a job, watched them do it, and watched them leave over time when dosing stopped. The job was happening inside a living gut. The exit was part of the th...

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    I spent decades building systems. Now I write about what they're building in us. Speculative tech anthropology for the fiction-minded.

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