Show Notes

A solid hour of talking about totally non-bleak stuff with Quinn Norton. Like the unfolding slow apocalypse (aka the early Jackpot Years (aka Welcome to the Churn)) , and why – no matter how bad things get here on Earth – it’s much easier to terraform our home planet, than settle on Mars or Venus.

Also the pros of slow travel and technomadism, and the cons of cupcakes.

Works mentioned:

• Robert Jackal’s Moral Mazes
• William Gibson’s The Peripheral

Further reading:

• Shutdown of thermohaline circulation [WIKI]

Would you like to know more?

• Solar Punk, an introduction.

Samples:

• REM – It’s the End of the World As We Know It