Topic
creation
4 essays follow this thread across the codex.
- 01 Technology · June 2026 · 14 min
The Future Technologies Science Fiction Predicted First
A tour through the frontier technologies remaking the human prospect — and the novelists who dreamed them decades before the engineers arrived, including the warnings we were too dazzled to read.
- 02 Artificial Intelligence · June 2026 · 13 min
From the Golem to GPT: Humanity’s Oldest Dream of Making Minds
From the clay of Prague to the weights of a language model, the dream of a made mind has always been one dream — and one warning: that what we shape in our own image may turn, and look back at us.
- 03 Art · June 2026 · 7 min
The Power of the Unfinished: Michelangelo, Turner, and the Art of Stopping
Why the deliberately unfinished work - Michelangelo’s struggling Slaves, Turner’s vanishing steam - is not a thing abandoned but a thing handed, mid-gesture, to the beholder’s eye.
- 04 Artificial Intelligence · June 2026 · 9 min
AI Alignment: Teaching a Mind to Be Good While Still Building It
On the strange moral position of teaching a mind to be good while it is still being assembled — and why we keep building the conscience into the scaffold before we agree on the values, or understand the system.