Category: Startups
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How AI, edge data centers, and the end of the pure manager are redesigning work from the ground up You have heard the panic: AI will steal your job. The data center will replace the warehouse worker. The remote work trend will be crushed by return‑to‑office mandates. All true, at first glance. All misleading, upon…
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Gen Z protesters from Nairobi to Jakarta are shaking governments and rewriting the rules of resistance. At first glance, it looks like pure generational rebellion—tech‑savvy youth fed up with corruption, unemployment, and a political class that has failed them. But dig deeper, and a more complex picture emerges. The same grievance‑for‑profit machinery that fuels Western…
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Introduction: You Already Own the Means of Production You have a roof. It is not a village. It is not a cooperative greenhouse. It is not a shared GPU cluster humming in a repurposed barn. But it is yours. And the sun hits it every day. And that makes you a producer — whether the…
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A witty talk radio essay in a light academic tone Introduction: The Villages Are Empty, But the GPUs Are Hot You remember the villages. Three thousand empty hamlets across Iberia. Shuttered bars. Pensioners waiting for a bell that no longer rings. The young left for the cities, where they now pay sixty percent of their…
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Most modern economic systems separate things that increasingly want to be recombined: land, energy, labor, and compute. Villagenomics starts from a simpler premise — that a territory should be treated as an operating system for coordinating productive life, not just a passive container for housing or consumption. In this model, a “village” is not defined…
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Why We Are Here You are reading this because you have felt it. The slow squeeze. The rent increase that eats your raise. The job that calls itself a “platform” and you a “partner” but treats you like a disposable sensor. The village you grew up in, now a ghost town of shuttered bars and…
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History has been made. For the first time ever, there’s a commercial spaceflight training course recognized by the European & U.S. higher education systems, as well as all of the Western space agencies including CNES, ESA and NASA! I attended the very first opening webinar outlining the course structure and curriculum for the foundational module,…
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This morning CATL did something big. It released its long-awaited sodium battery. The chemistry promises up to 10 000 deep charge cycles almost doubling the effective battery life to around 20 years in regular use and due to the use of abundant, cheap sodium, much lower price per kWh. The sodium battery is the revolution…
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Tokenization has been advertised as a new way to mark and track value. The key drivers of adoption are traceability, provenance and carrier-neutrality. In theory, it’s a long sought-after upgrade to our financial system. However, it, like all networks, it too has vulnerabilities that make it susceptible to capture by entities that favor centralization or…