Cassandras and What to Do About Them

By Jonathan

In their recent book Warnings, former US national security advisors Richard Clarke and R.P. Reddy take an evidence-based approach to identifying persons they call Cassandras. Cassandras are credible forecasters, with solid track records in their…

What’s wrong with a Celebration Society?

By Jonathan

In this world, however much we might wish it otherwise, there is no perfection to be found. Every beautiful thing has its limitations or deficiencies. Even mathematics has Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems. So, too, must a…

The Mortality Option (Updated)

By Jonathan

I usually won’t make blogs out of updates to the book, preferring to save them in a folder for the second edition. However, today I have decided to make an exception. The reason is a…

What Will the World be like in 2053?

By Jonathan

(Note: this was originally posted as an invited answer on Quora. However, by writing this I extended my previous thinking in some new ways, so I thought it should also appear here.) I’ll turn 100 in…

The Importance of Enrollment

By Jonathan

Many think that recruiting people to a vision or cause is a sales process. It isn’t. In this blog, I’ll distinguish sales from something that looks similar but yields different results. That something is enrollment.…

Why Is This Book Different?

By Jonathan

This book offers a genuinely new solution to technological unemployment More articles and books about the looming crisis are appearing all the time. Many offer clear explanations of the threat and why it is so…