Short-form Futures - Farsight
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For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, doing things slowly, inefficiently, and without precision looks existentially preferable.
Time and technology are inextricably linked. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, doing things slowly, inefficiently, and without precision looks existentially preferable. The Information Age is replacing sloth with speed as its new Deadly Sin. Caitlin van Bommel April 21, 2026 “I continuously find myself reckoning with our situation. The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment. We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure with our capacity…
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