Unapocalyptic
Karl SchroederKarl 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.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 125 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Where Do You Make the Cut?
Is AI doing something to us that we have no language to describe? If so, are all our responses, based on what we know and can say, inadequate to the situation?
What are you? A person, with agency, or a tool, to be used?
Don't Save This World. Design the Next One
I started this newsletter because I’d had an insight that I didn’t see anybody else talking about: namely, that the problems of the 21st century will have to be solved with ideas from the 21st century. Yet all our proposed solutions seem to...
Forget Saving the World. Tell Us What 'Better' Looks Like
So say the Men in Black have finally realized your potential and they bundle you into a black van. You’re afraid they’re going to demand that you save the world. To your surprise, that’s not what they ask for. No, they just want you to tell...
My Library: Full House
The idea of Progress is seductive, and so intuitive that we never question that there is a direction to it. Stephen J. Gould did and the result is astonishing
There’s an unstated assumption behind our narratives about AI. Sure, computers h...
Alien Politics
We shouldn't be worried about AGI or superintelligent AI. We should be actively designing a political system that gives standing to the incomprehensible
First, an apology. I’m behind in posting for a variety of life-related reasons. For ex...
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Award-winning science fiction writer and futurist. I write about what I call 'deserved optimism'--realistic, earned positive futures.
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