‘the arts result from over-crowding.’

‘if density and diversity give life, the life they breed is disorderly.’

An economy needs to economize. To maximize its resource and energy efficiency. Not the number of jobs. Nor the amount of busyness. Something most ten-year-old understand very well from their economy-building computer games. They will always build an efficiency-maximizing economy. Our economy simply does the opposite of what an economy is supposed t... See more

Essays on health technologies and Silicon Valley’s obsession with engineering bodies and minds, from the critic formerly known as “ed-tech’s Cassandra”