Why Pessimistic Blog?

It’s an interesting time to be alive, and like many of us, I’m trying to understand what is going on.

• Democracies seem to be careening towards autocracy, but there are hopeful signs.

• Artificial Intelligence is threatening many people’s ways of life. What does thes powerful tool mean to creatives?

• Nuclear war, an almost forgotten threat for decades, is back in the conversation but still underestimated.

• Global warming continues apace. Human restraint will not save is. Will there be a techological solution?

• We’ve just lived through a global pandemic which we did not react to quickly enough and then overcompensated for.

• Financial systems and instruments seem archaic and rickety at best.

• Economic problems abound, from obscene wealth disparities to out of reach real estate prices… how will these play out?

These are things I think about but don’t know as much about as I’d like. I’m using AI – large language models – to help me explore these issues. Please join me on this journey!