Future
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We inherit a great deal from the people who came before us. Their land, their debts, their noses, their predispositions to certain diseases. What we do not inherit, frustratingly, is the one thing that might actually be useful: what they knew. Every generation arrives at the same problems with the same blank slate, rediscovering grief…
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Every so often a piece of technology arrives that does not just change what we can do but quietly rewrites what we owe each other. The wheel did it. Antibiotics did it. The contraceptive pill did it. And there may be one coming that does it more intimately than any of them, because it touches…
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Think about all the things that hold a society together and never show up in any economic figure. The neighbour who checks on the elderly man two doors down. The colleague who quietly mentors the new hire. The stranger who notices you are lost and walks you to the right platform. None of it registers…