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April 2026

‘Motors stole silence from our world and electric light severed our intimate connection with all that exists in darkness beyond our illuminated bubble. What will AI take? Solitude.’

by Paul Saffo

“Every technological advance conceals a consequent loss, but the novelty is always so glittering and the loss so gradual, we never notice what was lost until long after it is…

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