It’s all about resources — The discovery of agriculture led to specialization 10,000 years ago. When people were no longer in a constant struggle to procure food, their big brains started innovating. The unprecedented caloric influx that allowed more people to survive, invent, and improve society made agriculture the most transformative invention in our history. …

It’s time for a new beginning — Every social media outlet has abused its position to increase revenue at the expense of consumers, who they treat like livestock. Our brains are at the mercy of algorithms designed to keep us glued to the screen, regardless of how bad the user experience is or the impact on our…

It’s far easier than most people believe — Imagine how an airplane or a skyscraper would look to a Neanderthal, whose kind had not even discovered the wheel. In the 60s, Sir Arthur Clarke wrote in Profiles of the Future, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It inspired the expression Clarketech: a technology so astounding and…

Energy! Our civilization craves it, but we are awash in it. Every second, the Sun generates nearly 500,000 times humanity’s energy consumption for an entire year. …

We have the power to change it — Most dystopias portray a devastated and resource-dilapidated world where people struggle from-cradle-to-grave to get by, often at the mercy of the super-rich or bizarre armed groups. Our predicaments are rooted in resource scarcity. Yet the inner solar system contains virtually unlimited energy, real estate, and (most important) raw materials enough…

With immortality just decades away, some of us might live to see it! — Imagine a distant future where humans have colonized the Milky Way, the Local Group, and are beginning to wander into neighboring clusters. They favor some of the latter for being far rich in natural fusion reactors than the meager pack of galaxies where the Sun was born. …

We have the technology, but it does require a miracle — Climate Change is the most immediate and existential threat ever faced by our species. But like an overweight individual facing an imminent heart attack, our instant gratification instinct prevents us from curbing consumption, nor do we have the will to lower the risk by sequestering the carbon in our atmosphere…

It won’t be anything like the Europeans arriving in the New World — I’m a big fan of The Expanse (I watched it three times) but still can’t believe how frequently they get things wrong, from the physics to the technology. However, sci-fi works today take after the colonization of the New World, the fall of the Roman Empire, or the great wars…

What we fail to notice about the sun — Earth is but a speck of dust in the limitless dark space that barely registers compared to the size of the sun. Our star is 1.3 …