Sitemap - 2023 - E2: The Future (& Scotland Too)

PK in The National: School bans on our kids' smartphones may rob them of digital evolution

PK in The National: Matheson might just be the latest victim of ongoing "platform decay"

PK in The National: Tom Nairn was an exemplar when it comes to influential public intellectuals

Omnipedia #34: Psychoanalysis and Gaza, Genius Club ≠ Boys Club, the post-humans at OpenAI, and more

PK in The National: Scottish museums are at forefront of repatriation

PK in The National: There’s time to decide how we can best use new technologies

Omnipedia #33: We're whirlpools of meaning, we shouldn't do batshit jobs, we physically need music, & more

PK in The National: I, for one, would welcome our new robot co-creators of a better world

PK in New Scientist: review of “Life and Language Beyond Earth” - how aliens might communicate

Omnipedia #32: Wise newsbrands for Israel/Hamas, AI’s superhuman persuasiveness, capitalist soliloquies & more

PK in The National: There are NFT stories beyond folk with far too much cash and no taste

PK in The National: Remembering our humanity is the only way to save us from these horrors

Omnipedia #31: Planet-saving actuaries, "human animals" at every extreme, William Blake meets the Singularity, and more

PK in The National: Indulge yourself with the background to Suella Braverman's 'luxury beliefs' language

Omnipedia #30: Radical play, from E. Musk to black-power dolls; Open AI preps for Star Trek economics; SF is your biggest tool, & more

Shall we "Chat", here on Substack?

PK in The National: "News avoiders" get blame but there's a bigger story we must try to uncover

PK in The National: How we improve the economic case for Scotland becoming independent

SP 3.1.2 - From the Antagon to the Paxium

PK in The National: Can we rely on our ‘moral force-field’ to stop cloning going too far?

Omnipedia #29: UGI (Universal Generous Income), unravelling nudge theory, reacting to the "reaction economy", & more

PK on Podcasts: talking with Rachel Donald's Planet: Critical, and Nick Sherrard's Label Sessions

PK in The National: Four-day week can free us to make the changes needed due to climate crisis

Omnipedia #28: The politics of ULEZ Blade Runners, defying Big Data with Big Dada, the "private bathroom" question in eco-futurism, & more

PK in The National: Scotch whisky has much to teach us on being adaptable in the wider world

Omnipedia #27: When the lights go on in AI, when fossil-fuel lying liars lie, when Nick Cave gives you creative lessons, & more

PK in The National: Scots geopoet has left us a roadmap to coping with a planet on the move

PK New Scientist book review: Finding space on Earth

PK Long Read: The Company We Keep [on management culture] (The Guardian, 1996)

PK in The National: On CodeClan's fall - Scotland’s future can’t assume markets will always work

Omnipedia #26: Voices between '83 and '23, welcoming our cephalopod overlords, European Twitter & more

PK in The National: Will a 'New York solution' help Glasgow's struggling high streets?

Omnipedia #25: Accelerate or die!, intelligence at all levels, Orwell's hidden (and prophetic) wife, & more

PK in The National: Why this space cadet remains a resolute sceptic on aliens and UFOs

Omnipedia #24: Superconducters beat aliens anyday, ideas that "lie around waiting for crises", heat from the Oppenbarbie, & more

SP 3.1.1 - From the commercial to the social imaginarium

PK in The National: Barbenheimer film saga is a whirling blizzard of nihilism and optimism

PK in The National: the Huw Edwards affair suggests we need a ‘better media’ - but how to get there?

PK in The National: In our age of the universal jukebox, we choose romance, lust and adventure

Omnipedia #23: Demis Hassabis loves Iain M. Banks, Kundera gone & Sigur Ros here, war drones in the orchard, & more

PK in The National: AI - Scotland led the way and we can once more

Omnipedia #22: The socialist HG Wells, the blockchain radicals, the difficulty of writing up a rave, & more

PK in The National: Saltire Society's '40 under 40' list shows Scotland's creative soul

PK in The National: Banksy exhibit shines light on what icons truly say about a city

Omnipedia #21: Hackers, hipsters & hippies reign, beware Bergson's "mechanisation of spirit", that damnable Waterstones Dad, & more

PK in The National: AI gives us an opportunity for liberation - if we rise up and seize it

PK in The National: Phillip Schofield saga distracts from daytime TV's radical potential

Omnipedia #20: Apple Vision & French philosophy, "Poor Things" making Glasgow Bobos happy, crashed aliens as fiendish psy-ops, and more

Pt. 3: Let The People SUPERPLAY! 3.1: For The People, Not The Elites

PK in The National: The Queen of Rock'n'Roll inspires for her courage and spirituality

#Omnipedia 19: the Ludocene begins, the Millennials stay lefty, AI should decelerate and much more

Omnipedia #18: Neo-Luddites Assemble!, blockchain for truth, Baldwin and Butlins, plus more

PK in The National: Why construction of the past can help us to build a better future

PK in The National: Scotland is about to make a massive mistake with oil

Omnipedia #17: the AI ragtime plays on, Green Chuck (maybe), Oppenheimer A-Go-Go, and more

PK in The National: What 2 classics of Scottish cinema can teach us about modern concerns

PK in The National: "To See Ourselves" untangles the roots of one man's passion for Scots independence

Omnipedia #16: Love the weird in AI, sharpen your science of emotions, the prophecies of 'Local Hero', & more

PK in The National: The digital ‘fakeworld’ just makes reality more appealing

PK in The National: Scotland can do better than Westminster's mud-wrestling

Part 2.0 of SUPERPLAY: Fields of Superplay. 2.3: The StudioLab

Omnipedia #15: MA for troublemakers, permafakery > idiosyncracy, Tár nailed, Dr. Moreau 2020s GPTstyle, the Kissingerium, and more

PK in The National: Capaldi’s new documentary captures growing feeling among Gen Z

PK in The National: Goodbye to the great Lily Savage ... and hello to the world of Drag Race

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Omnipedia #14: Longtermism and Labour, the endless American smile, #corecore politics, and more

Omnipedia #13: Pausing giant AI experiments, GenZ's colour scheme, Humzamodernity, and more

PK in The National: The next First Minister must consider the long term future of Scotland

PK in the National: What data would China want? TikTok's all lip-syncs and cats, isn't it?

PK in The National: Gary Lineker is right. How many fascism warning signs do you need?

PK in The National: What are consultancy companies doing to our governments?

Part 2.0 of SUPERPLAY: Fields of Superplay. 2.2: The Antagon

Omnipedia #12: democratic LLMs, understudied poets, Department of Truth, Japanese eco-marxists, #corecore art...

PK in The National: Must our forward-looking independent Scotland manufacture war machines?

PK in the National: The story behind that Pat Kane, Nicola Sturgeon and George Galloway picture

PK in The National: Have our robot overlords arrived, writing serviceable Scots?

Omnipedia #11: YouTubing from the underpass, AI eats all the games, & more

PK in The National: Breathtaking profits of oil giants should spur us to action

PK in The National: Will Indy-backing, booze-shunning young Scots herald a cultural shift?

Part 2.0 of SUPERPLAY: Fields of Superplay. 2.1: The Imaginarium

Omnipedia #10: Fake faces faze reality, Tom Nairn elegies, Hamlet and Panda Bear, and more

PK in The National: Culture cuts at BBC Radio Scotland speak to a much deeper malaise

Audio version of SUPERPLAY, 1.2: Imagination, Metacognition and Human Play

SUPERPLAY 1.3: From Play into SUPERPLAY - for the highest stakes

Omnipedia #9: Millennial lefties, bio-war absurdities, creativity frees you, the most recent 12 hours of humankind, and more

PK in The National: ‘Taking back control’ comes in more forms than presented by Labour