Karl Schroeder helps you achieve "earned" optimism about the future using a mix of wild science fiction speculation and hard-nosed strategic foresight. Paid subscribers get new serialized fiction, deeper analyses, and more input to the process.
A vision for an AI-powered, privacy-first platform with a focus on empowering people and creating a flourishing ecosystem. Posts are a mix of design principles and protocol proposals, and speculative use-cases set in the future they enable.