A device fitted to you on your first day of school, that grows with you across a lifetime. What consumer electronics looks like when it lasts.

A device fitted to you on your first day of school, that grows with you across a lifetime. What consumer electronics looks like when it lasts.

The household has been at the far end of a long fragile string for a century. Energy sovereignty is the move out. Solarpunk 2.0, and the triad that builds it.

The household has been at the far end of a long fragile string for a century. Energy sovereignty is the move out. Solarpunk 2.0, and the triad that builds it.

How it feels to live in a home that gets better with time, and what it takes to make one. Why the dwelling is the test case for better living with circularity.

How it feels to live in a home that gets better with time, and what it takes to make one. Why the dwelling is the test case for better living with circularity.

Not so long ago, I considered myself basically a capitalist, and—echoing folks like Ralph Nader and Elizabeth Warren—would have said our problems are with _corporate_ capitalism. Maybe so, but whether or not corporatism is the capitalism that Adam Smith envisioned, it’s the capitalism we have. Inasmuch as the notion of “markets” includes convention dealers’ rooms, great local coffee…

I was thankful to read Marcin Wichary’s review of Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything. I first heard about the book months and months ago; it sounded potentially interesting but I was afraid it was going to suffer from a now-familiar myopia of the “tech” old guard. Wichary writes:

I will just say it: I wish the author was more woke. The book is very male-coded. The main chosen areas of…

Closing out a season that asked why circularity stalled — and discovered that the environmental case, while critical, is not enough to close the deal. The benefits hiding behind it are the ones that will.

Closing out a season that asked why circularity stalled — and discovered that the environmental case, while critical, is not enough to close the deal. The benefits hiding behind it are the ones that will.

Nick Gillespie appears smiling on the left. Stewart Brand appears contemplative on the right. An image of the earth appears in the center square. Text across the top of the screen reads "CAN WE SURVIVE?"

When institutions produce the chaos, order becomes the rebellion. The punks of 2026 don't sneer. They say "no thank you" and build something without you.

When institutions produce the chaos, order becomes the rebellion. The punks of 2026 don't sneer. They say "no thank you" and build something without you.