Across The Margin : The Podcast — Progress with Samuel Miller McDonald

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It would be reasonable to see the AI rollout as history’s most diversified form of mass theft. The initial “training” of generative AI programs involved stealing copyright-protected intellectual prope...

How does literature reflect the crisis we're collectively experiencing—and why do some of the novels published today fail to grasp both the intensity and complexity of our world?

How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It

One of the most common contemporary arguments for the idea of human progress is in the arena of social justice: the belief that there have been steady improvements in fairness, equality, and opport…

Geographer Samuel Miller McDonald on the myth of progress that has legitimised violence for over 5,000 years, revealing how it has been recycled through Holy Books, colonial legislation, international...

Despite driving "growth", AI is failing to improve anyone's life, and its harms are piling up.

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Geographer Samuel Miller McDonald's book details the technological development of humanity’s parasitic relationship with the natural world.

Samuel Miller McDonald's Progress is a bold and wide-ranging argument about the idea of progress that offers a new vision of our future.

Geographer McDonald debuts with a sweeping reappraisal of the notion of historical progress. He examines frequently cited eviden...

Building “alternative” energy infrastructure isn’t enough. To avert climate disaster, fossil fuels need to be restricted, and energy consumption overall needs to fall.

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From center-left Ezra Klein to right-wing Matt Walsh, the fertility panic is an elite fixation that is rooted in a human supremacist worldview and a deep fear of slowing growth. Samuel Miller McDonald...