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Hussein, in his place behind the wheel, was looking angrily at his watch and muttering inaudibly. One of the waiting truck drivers approached him and said plainly, “No goods can get through without the right documents.” Hussein quickly got out of the minibus and went up to the makeshift office. He paid a bribe known as a goods-transit document, and

scenarios, which we named Gray, Green, and Gaia. We crafted them as “news feeds from the future,” and included a guiding strategy document. Andrew: OK, let’s take it from the top. Gray? Gopal: Gray is more or less business as usual extrapolated out. It’s the mostly collapsitarian view of how the social and ecological implications of climate will pl

the years of 2000 to 2004 turned Israelis into centrists. They agreed with the Left that creating a Palestinian state was critical for Israel, so that Israel would not continue to rule over millions of Palestinians. Yet they also agreed with the Right that creating a Palestinian state would put Israel in grave danger.21 They were stuck. ON NOVEMBER

As uncertainty and precarity become the new normal, so governmental regimes have shifted their focus from how to secure us to how to make us resilient. Security, and the longing for it, have become a kind of pathology. We are no longer to expect or seek certainty but rather to embrace and accept challenge and danger, a state of perpetual emergency…

He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.

Comme dans la trilogie au succès planétaire, MaddAddam, où l’auteure canadienne Margaret Atwood raconte les aventures de quatre adolescents vivant avant, pendant et après un grand effondrement. L’histoire se déroule aux États-Unis dans un avenir proche (dystopique) où les entreprises ont pris le contrôle sur tout. Après le quasi-anéantissement de l

His name is Tristan Harris, a former start-up founder and Google engineer who deviated from his well-worn path through the world of tech to become something decidedly rarer in this closed world: a whistleblower.

“This thing is a slot machine,” Harris says early in the interview while holding up his smartphone.

“How is that a slot machine?” Cooper ask

This group, headed by a Saudi exile named Osama bin Laden and an Egyptian dissident (and former Muslim Brotherhood member) named Ayman al-Zawahiri, formed an organization dubbed al-Qaeda (“the base” or “the fundamentals”) that, ten years later, would turn its focus away from the corrupt leaders of the Arab and Muslim world—what the Jihadists term t

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