Tag
narrative
- EssayThe Energy That Doesn't Burn
An illustrated children's adaptation of Artificial Energy. For two hundred years humans powered the world with one trick—burning—while the leaf has harvested energy from free-energy gradients, without burning anything, for 3.5 billion years. Twelve pages walk young readers up the energy ladder to Artificial Energy: machines clever enough to choose which energy to catch, the twin sibling of AI.
- EssayVita Omnia: A Children's Book
An illustrated children's adaptation of the Vita Omnia letter. Across five spreads it tells young readers the three claims of the original: that for four billion years life was blind to what could destroy it and we are the first who can see; that you are not your atoms but the pattern they carry; and that the blessing to be fruitful and fill was never bounded by one planet. We are not the authors of life, but we may be its carriers.
- EssayThe Arc
A twenty-seven-year path through environmental law to the realization that environmental protection is not a legal problem but an information problem—and the work of building the successor framework.