Tag: Collapse

Long before I stumbled upon the phrase “context collapse,” I witnessed the paradigm shift of younger users abandoning social media stalwarts like Facebook or Twitter for, at the time, smaller, more “artisanal” platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. Facebook soon bec...

At first glance, nuclear fusion and the much-heralded collapse of Russia under its simple-minded dictator Putin would seem to be as different as it is possible to get. Look a little deeper, however, and the similarities leap to the surface. For those who don’t pay attention to physics, nucl...

We have laws that are in conflict with each other: laws that proclaim something must be done or else, with no else. Rules that must be respected without recourse. Principals for whitch something stands without enunciating why they are indeed Principals. The nonsense of self evidentiary truths. Th...

The Right Path But Wrong Turn Convoy had the right idea: focus on a large market with relatively low barriers to entry where things hadn’t changed much since the advent of email. Their solution offered transparency in pricing, which benefited carriers and shippers alike. Despite their techn...

It appears the U.S. is in a nosedive, and the collapse is imminent. People on both sides of the aisle seem to be able to agree on this, although they don’t know what that collapse will look like exactly. What are the problems the nation is facing? We’ve got insanely high rental and ho...

In Ernest Hemingway’s classic 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises, Bill Gorton asks Mike Campbell, “How did you go bankrupt?” Campbell replies, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” That’s what happened recently with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and its parent SVB F...

James Hansen of Columbia University in the US, published a paper with his colleagues in November, which claims temperatures are set to rise further and faster than the predictions of the Intergovern-mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In his view, the 1.5°C target is dead. Michael Mann fro...

At 8.45pm on Tuesday 2nd September 1913, while hundreds of local people were attending a show in Father Mathew Hall on Church Street, a terrible rumbling was heard across the district. Described by those attending the show as ‘resembling a cannon’s roar’, it was the signal for...