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The Civilizational Brief

The Civilizational Brief

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Briefs from The Planet Futures Organization, an MNGO: independent of states and markets, watching what cannot be undone.

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#175 The Sun as a Power Plant: What a Civilization Needs to Harness Its Star

#MultiplanetaryNGO#Megastructures

#174 The Commissioned Audit: What Enron, 2008 and Boeing Teach Us About Controlling AI

#MultiplanetaryNGO#AIGovernance

#173 The American Government and the Price of the Present: Who Pays the Bill for the Next Election Day

#MultiplanetaryNGO#ShortTermism

#172 The Exhausted Civilization: How AI and Robotics Make Room for the Future

#ExhaustedCivilization#FutureOfWork

#171 Our Children and the Future: The First Generation of Parents Without an Answer

#FutureGenerations#Parenthood

#170 Superintelligence: Why No One Should Hold the Switch Alone

#Superintelligence#AIGovernance

#169 Superintelligence and Consciousness: The First Will Anyone Has Built

#Superintelligence#AIConsciousness

#168 The Smell of Rain: Why Humanity Must Take Its Microbes Along When It Leaves Earth

#Microbiome#SoilLife

#167 The Anger We All Carry

#JusticeSensitivity#AngerAsMessenger

#166 The One-Way Inheritance: What Earth Gets Back From the People It Sends Away

#SpaceSettlement#Mars

#165 The City on Mars: How a Colony Becomes a Home in Two Hundred Years

#Mars#SpaceSettlement

#164 The Settlers After Us: What Limits a Technology-Dependent Humanity Owes Its Descendants

#LongTermThinking #Sustainability