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Part 1 of 3 Modern Technology and Society · August 2026 Modernity & The Mountaintop Technology has been the engine of human progress, and it compounds: each era arrives faster, is harder to understand, and puts more reach in fewer hands. AI is where that trend stops being abstract.
Part 2 of 3 · Coming Modern Technology and Society · September 2026 The Reasoning Era We are old creatures who learned to store grain. AI is the next stockpile, and it is being built faster, by more people, with more money, than anything before it.
Part 3 of 3 · Coming Modern Technology and Society · September 2026 Remaining Awake: AI and Where We Go From Here AI is the next stockpile. Where it is going, why our caveman wiring is both the problem and the resource, and what we should do before the leverage is gone.
Data visualization · April 2025 Telling the story of the U.S. racial wealth gap with data visualization Making a four-century injustice legible in charts: what the gap is, how it persists, and why visualization changes the conversation.
Mobility · April 2025 Can mobility be smarter in the age of AI and autonomy? Certainly. What autonomy and AI could do for how people actually move through cities, if efficiency and access are the goals rather than afterthoughts.
Teams · April 2025 Improving team success via AI meeting feedback Meetings generate the richest record of how a team really works. An experiment in mining that record for feedback people can use.
Economics · April 2025 The changing economics of digital product development AI is collapsing the cost of building software. What that does to teams, pricing, and who gets to make things.