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Gaia’s Great Turning: A 50-Year Climate Reversal Blueprint (2025–2075. Updated)

This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last year. Regrettably, all is not well in the golden valley...

The Friction of Progress: Why the Global Climate Transition is Catching Up to Markets, but Lagging Behind the Earth

In May 2026, the international climate arena presents a striking paradox. It is alive, highly active, and structurally transformed, yet it remains profoundly underpowered...

London. Clean Air, Congestion, and Retrofit Burdens

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 6 London has done something that most cities only talk about: it has used road pricing to change behaviour at...

Greening Oslo: Discipline of the Possible

How Norway’s capital turned climate policy into budgets, procurement, and quieter streets — and why even Oslo is not yet a finished green city Standfirst Oslo...

The Enchantress of Abstraction: The Life, Work, Legacy and Genius of Augusta Ada Lovelace

The Convergence of Poetry and Logic The history of science is frequently punctuated by figures who exist at the confluence of opposing forces—individuals whose intellects...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick’s Question Meets Quantum Consciousness and the Age of AI

The question Philip K. Dick posed in 1968 was never really about sheep. It was about the ineffable thing that separates life from simulation, consciousness...

Moltbook: The Bot-Only Social Network Isn’t the Singularity—It’s a Stress Test for the Agent Era

*An ABC Australia report on Moltbook (February 2026) and the ensuing security coverage is the spark for this commentary—because beneath the memes is a...

The Large Language Model Landscape of February 2026

The Permian competition tightens: pruning, agentic browsers, and the energy bill becomes law. February 2026 doesn’t feel like a month of flashy invention. It feels...

The Global South and the Fight Against “Extractive” AI

As we step into 2026, the global landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is marked by a growing resistance in the Global South against the...

The Large Language Model Landscape of January 2026: 10 Predictions for the Year of the “Doing” Engine

I. The View from January: The Permian Competition Begins The sun rises on 2026, and the hangover from the AI industry’s wildest quarter yet is...

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