It is perhaps the strongest form of secular faith that collective human ingenuity will continue to overcome limits. Many people today feel a level of techno-optimism that ‘something will come along’ to extract humanity from the progress traps it has set for itself. Yet it is clear that human systems are failing on many different levels, in some

... See more

In December of 2022, British contemporary artist Es Devlin installed a public sculpture in concert with the Endangered Language Alliance, “Your Voices,” outside of New York’s Lincoln Center. The work responds to anthropologist Wade Davis’s observation: “Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem... See more