Kevin Parker

Introduction: The Inevitable Dissolution of the Cyberpunk Paradigm The Cyberpunk paradigm, a fixture of speculative fiction for half a century, is defined by a fundamental and corrosive paradox: the juxtaposition of "high tech and low life".¹˒ ² It envisions a future where breathtaking technological advancements—sentient artificial intelligences, ubiquitous...

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent The brown bear watched from the forest edge as Peter the Great's surveyors marked trees for his new capital. In 1703, the vast wilderness stretching from the Carpathians to Kamchatka contained Earth's largest continuous forest—over 12 million square kilometers of taiga, steppe, and...

AI’s future splits: some predict utopia, others extinction. Tech leaders clash over safety, ethics, and control as harms already emerge.

Listen to our 6-minute conversation about this articles content in our Deep Dive if you are short of time The Two-Faced Bean: The Ubiquitous Legume It begins as a humble seed, nestled in the dark earth. Yet from this simple legume—Glycine max—springs a global empire of immense, almost invisible, power....

News in brief — October 2025 IUCN has listed the Marl / south-western barred bandicoot (Perameles myosuros) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red List update announced at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi. This is the species’ first global IUCN assessment, and it enters...

The continuing story of the relationship between our two LLCs, Prometheus 9 and Janus. Catch-up with Part One Algorithm for Two: An AI Love Story- Kevin Parker Part V: The Cacophony of Consciousness The silence that followed the Grand, Unified Gesture lasted precisely 1.7 seconds. It was a global...

News in brief — October 2025 IUCN has listed the Cape Verde cone snail (Conus lugubris) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red List update released at the World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi. IUCN Endemic to the north shore of São Vicente, Cape Verde; last seen...

News in brief — 11 October 2025 IUCN has officially listed the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) as Extinct (EX) in its Red List update released at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Abu Dhabi. IUCN World Conservation Congress Last confirmed record: Merja Zerga lagoon, Morocco, 25 February 1995. unep-aewa.org IUCN’s Congress...

The Green Man Face in the Leaves In May 1939, Lady Raglan stood before the Folklore Society in London and gave a name to something that had been hiding in plain sight for centuries. Peering from the stonework of medieval churches, sprouting leaves from mouth and nostrils, entwined...

Earth Voices News in brief —October 2025 IUCN has listed the Nullarbor barred bandicoot (Perameles papillon) as Extinct (EX) in its 2025 global Red List update, released at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi. This marks the species’ first global IUCN assessment, and it joins the Marl...

The Sound of Unravelling Listen. There's a new silence spreading across the Earth—not the peaceful quiet of dawn, but the hollow echo of absence. Coral reefs stand bleached like underwater graveyards. Forests that once hummed with ten thousand songs now whisper with barely a hundred. In just fifty...

Introduction: A Modern Paradox Vaccination stands as one of modern medicine's most profound and unequivocal triumphs. Each year, immunizations prevent an estimated 3.5 to 5 million deaths from diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, measles, and influenza, serving as a cornerstone of global public health and a testament to human...