Posts by Jo-Ann

Today was another ordinary day at the office for me. I worked on my novel, peppering in leg stretches while flipping through news channels on TV. I was looking for…

The future risk to the United States is probably not classic dictatorship. It is a fragmented, privatized, technologically managed democracy where formal freedoms continue to exist while meaningful civic influence steadily declines for large portions of the population.

Believe it or not, I’ve actually been waiting for this subject to come up. Not Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas (that’s a mouthful) thesis specifically, but AI assisting humanity rather…

Media increasingly treats extreme wealth as cultural entertainment rather than economic abnormality.

Tech billionaires are selling the public a product that is increasingly harmful, disruptive, psychologically manipulative, and socially destabilizing while marketing it as some kind of inevitable utopian revolution designed to...“make…

Truth and reality barely exist in the U.S. information environment today.

The future is automated systems deciding whether you can access your bank account, your healthcare, through layers of AI-driven verification and private corporate proxies nobody elected and nobody can meaningfully challenge.