Fiction, essays, and speculative science on the long arc of human technological evolution — and the species we may yet become.
Eight billion people, finite resources, and a future selected moment by moment — an argument for evolving rather than perishing. The clearest place to begin.
Read the essay →Mapping self-directed evolution — from minor augmentation to substrate independence and galactic, light-speed posthuman life.
A 2010 poem imagining a self that travels star to star as light itself — flesh, machine, and simulation across every substrate.
We could cross the galaxy as transmitted light — yet a mature civilization might preserve the lifeforms it finds rather than consume them. The question, turned back on ourselves.
Three branches of posthumanity — Earth-bound, space-adapted, substrate-independent — and why redundancy across worlds is survival.
A booth-side encounter with a historian from 120 years ahead. Retrocausal branching, a global brain, and a city that got too smart too fast.
The unfinished 2008 story, written under the pen name Michael Blade, that sparked this entire futurist project.
A generic OS for capturing, modeling, and re-instantiating human beings across successive generations of AI. Version 1.1 · Version 2.0
A 2016 video talk on transmitting digital humans at the speed of light to seed and colonize the galaxy — the bootstrap-replicator idea, on the record.
A temporary gathering of sentient stardust — free thinker, evolving human, blogger, coder, artist, and humanitarian. A career spanning four decades as developer, designer, and evangelist, now writing as a futurist and content creator from San Francisco.