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Unapocalyptic

Karl Schroeder

Karl Schroeder helps you achieve "earned" optimism about the future using a mix of wild science fiction speculation and hard-nosed strategic foresight. Paid subscribers get new serialized fiction, deeper analyses, and more input to the process.

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Latest Issues

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Earning Optimism in 2026

Today I’m going to describe some hard, apocalyptic truths about our short-term future. Basically, using fossil fuels for geopolitical extortion is resulting in catastrophe. But then I’m going to make three unapocalyptic claims: first, that ...

6 days ago
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Reading, Hot and Cold

I come from a family of readers, and I grew up before ebooks. Some of my earliest memories are of inhabiting paper books: flipping back two hundred pages to effortlessly find a name, incident, or idea that I need right now; estimating by ey...

a month ago
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Building the Electric Sheep

“What if they’ve read it all?”

2 months ago
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Saving the Desktop II

Last year I wrote a post pointing out that most of the world is dependent on American software stacks—especially the operating system—and that we who do not live in the U.S. need alternatives to guarantee the safety and integrity of our dat...

2 months ago
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  • Karl Schroeder

    Award-winning science fiction writer and futurist. I write about what I call 'deserved optimism'--realistic, earned positive futures.

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