Perils and Promise

Confronting Civilizational Risks and Building a Brighter Tomorrow

Perils and Promise analyzes humanity’s most pressing challenges and charts actionable pathways toward building a brighter, more abundant future. Perils is a deliberately modular anthology—you can read these essays in any order you like.

Remember to come back often—the anthology will keep growing, deepening, and improving as fresh research emerges and new essays are added.

A perilous, yet hopeful, future

• Yesterday’s Lost Tomorrow

• The Time of Perils

• Harmonious Horizon

Energy

• The Energy Cliff

• The Processed Food Paradox

• Surcharging Sugar

People

• Empty Earth

• Baby Boom

• Managing Migration

• Paying You to Live

• Rescuing Retirement

Education and Innovation

• Devalued Dreams

• Patent Failure

• Dynamos of Discovery

• Education Reimagined (Community Learning Hubs)

• Campuses of Creation

• Patents vs Prizes

• Perfecting Patents

The Economy

• The Housing Theory of Everything

• Colossal Cities

• Costly Contagion

• Undermining Unity

• The Invisible Graveyard

• Entangled by Entitlements

• Ports, Prosperity, and Peace

• The Dark Side of Property

• Tax the Land

• The Bounty Beneath

• Consumption Conundrums

Government

• Accelerate (To be deprecated and replaced by Defying Decline)

• Democracy’s Demise

• Streamlining the State

• Scales Skewed

• Judge, Jury, and Justice (Coming Soon)

• Dust Dome Democracy

• Blending Brainpower

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