The industrial era

Save your breathHumans are prediction engines. Each moment of every day our brains are scenario planning. What is likely to happen next? Often, we act before we have time to consciously rationalise our behaviour. This neural wiring kept us alive on the savanna.Humans, like every other lifeform, value energy and are thus wired to conserve […]

It’s a long story Things started to go downhill for mankind around 12,000 years ago. Some bright spark worked out how to domesticate seed and thus began our foray into the world of genetics. More recently, we domesticated animals, thus further exerting our dominance over our fellow cohabitants. These agriculture revolutions enabled us to produce […]