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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: technology
The Power Of Contingency: Why China Didn’t Rule The World
Pomeranz, Kenneth – The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2001) Category: economy, history, world systems; Rating: 5*/5 Summary: Brad DeLong’s review; The Bactra Review; Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? It’s a rare book that not only … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion, The Sino Triumphalist
Tagged americas, china, cliodynamics, collapse, economy, europe, history, india, japan, russia, science, technology, thermoeconomics
71 Comments
Tales From The Beijing Embassy
Four cables from Cathay, courtesy of this excellent Cable Search tool. The first cable (Cable 1) is one of the last dispatches of Ambassador to the PRC Clark T. Randt, a long, analytical piece from January 2009. But it’s also … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion, The Sublime Cables
Tagged africa, aid, cable, china, coal, corruption, economy, education, futurism, growth, hi-tech, human rights, imperialism, international relations, iq, kenya, peak oil, politics, resource depletion, rise of the rest, science, technology, urbanization, usa, vision, wikileaks
7 Comments
Emerging Technologies: Limits to Growth vs. Moore’s Law
Like my post on Resource Depletion and Peak Oil, this is intended as a reference article for another key future trend. One important observation I will make at the beginning is that the approach of Limits To Growth (already imminent … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, authoritarianism, biotech, energy, environment, futurism, hi-tech, military, nanotech, public health, robotics, technology, vision
4 Comments
SSR #8: On Future War
This is the fourth post in my series of Sublime Strategic Reports (SSRs) covering global trends, regions, and geopolitics. In this issue I am going to look at the future of military technology and war strategy in a world of informatization, … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, china, collapse, energy, geoengineering, hi-tech, history, imperialism, military, russia, technology, usa, war
17 Comments
Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged apocalypse, authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, corruption, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, ethics, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, history, human rights, imperialism, matrix, peak oil, politics, singularity, technology, usa, vision, war
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The Final Gambit: Geoengineering
It is very likely that efforts to prevent CO2 levels from soaring to 450ppm – the level we need to stop at to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 2C or less – will fail. This will lead … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, chaos, china, climate change, collapse, communism, energy, fantasy, geoengineering, geopolitics, global dimming, human rights, philosophy, science, technology, vision
6 Comments
Green Communism
Thesis. The current capitalist-industrial System is incapable of surmounting the limits to growth on planet Earth because markets and technology, today’s salvation gospel, are no deus ex machina to the energy-and-pollution predicament of industrial civilization. Nor is this System in principle … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, collapse, communism, cuba, culture, economy, energy, environment, finance, human rights, imperialism, life, marxism, matrix, morale, philosophy, politics, rant, singularity, technology, vision
13 Comments
Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History
One of the most interesting emerging sciences today, in my opinion, is cliodynamics. Their practitioners attempt to come to with mathematical models of history to explain “big history” – things like the rise of empires, social discontent, civil wars, and … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, collapse, corruption, demography, education, history, review, Reviews, science, technology
5 Comments
Review of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” (J. Diamond)
While trawling through my computer archives, I stumbled across this book review of Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel” from five years ago. Overall, it’s a great book, better than his follow-up “Collapse”, which is also interesting – especially in … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Reviews
Tagged agriculture, culture, demography, environment, pandemic, public health, review, science, technology
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Thinking about Nuclear War
I have always been fascinated by nuclear war. Mountain bunkers, missile gaps, MAD, – what is there not to like? So this post will be devoted to the doomsday weapons which continue tantalizing us with visions of post-nuclear nirvana. Because yes, … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged economy, hi-tech, military, soviet union, space, technology, usa, war
2 Comments