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Author: Morgan Johnson

Automation is coming–and it is not going to be like last time

December 4, 2018 Morgan Johnson Leave a comment

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Posted in: Week 15: Webinar

The End of Things, and the Big Questions.

November 26, 2018 Morgan Johnson Leave a comment

Harari posits that the state and market became some of the most central aspects of human culture due to the…

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Posted in: Week 14: Harari (Part 3)

Opening a big can of genes

November 12, 2018 Morgan Johnson 4 Comments

One interesting potentiality covered from the readings is Anthony James’s work with eradicating certain types of mosquitoes that are responsible…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Beating the Naysayers to the Punch

November 5, 2018 Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

In the last chapter of his major work, Darwin brought up a few arguments or defenses of his new theory…

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Posted in: Week 11: Darwin

An Unfit Master: The Failed Relationship Between Sapiens and Terra

October 29, 2018 Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

When it comes to the formal adoption of the Anthropocene epoch to our geologic time scale, I would vote to…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

16 Decades of Science

October 22, 2018 Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

A few months ago I had a conversation with Dr. Heyes, the head of MSU’s Chemical and Biological Engineering department,…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

The last gasp from the corpse of mining?

October 15, 2018 Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

LeCain posits that there are at least three main types of techno-fixes, namely transformational, relocating, and delaying. For any particular…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

The Poison from the Plunder

October 8, 2018 Morgan Johnson Leave a comment

The ever-increasing rewards of deep subsurface mining necessitated the invention of new methods and technology to allow for mining to…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Unlimited Power: The Social Cataclysm of Technology and Science

October 1, 2018 Morgan Johnson 2 Comments

Governments, religions, and other relatively static institutes that hold power over large numbers of people should fear air pumps and…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

The Revolution is here–with some added baggage

September 24, 2018 Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

In Harari’s view, there is a strong link between science, empire and capitalism, which is bound in a sort of…

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Posted in: Week 05: Harari (Part 2) and Johnson (Part 1)

The Foundations for Today, from the Revolutions of the Past.

September 17, 2018 Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

Harari posits that the first major human revolution was the Cognitive Revolution, wherein humans developed an ability to communicate that…

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Posted in: Week 04: Harari (Part 1)

Faded Glory: The Uncovered Sins of Technological Fixes

September 10, 2018 Morgan Johnson Leave a comment

In Douthwaite’s mind, technological fixes can have great positive impacts on “…important social problem[s]” (Douthwaite, p.32) and allow for the…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

The Death of the Earth from Carelessness

September 3, 2018 Morgan Johnson 1 Comment

The Bitterroot Valley faces a variety of environmental issues, many of which stem from how the land has been treated…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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