There are moments when the future stops being an abstract idea and becomes personal. For me, one of those moments was not in a lab, or a server room, or while reading some breathless prediction about artificial intelligence. It was in a conversation with my daughter before her…

A low-birth society has to choose who, or what, will carry the load. The last post was about the sign taped to the door: Closed early due to staffing shortage. This one is about what comes after the sign. Because a society can run short on workers for only so long before it has…