Author: dave

  • The 1970 sci-fi film Colossus: The Forbin Project depicted AI designed for perfect order; to protect humanity from itself, making sure a nuclear winter would never arise. Fifty years later, this chilling vision is being integrated into our legal and social systems in ways that create unprecedented levels of algorithmic control, shaping a new era…

  • The neon pulse of New Tokyo felt colder than usual as the artificial snow—a byproduct of the city’s atmospheric scrubbers—drifted down like almond slivers onto the metal walkways. The city, a colossal sprawl of chrome and carbon, hummed with the ceaseless rhythm of a million lives under perpetual twilight. Each hab-unit, a tiny cell in…