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Karl Schroeder

Toronto
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Science fiction writer and foresight consultant. Canadian. Author of Stealing Worlds, Lockstep, and the Virga series. @KarlSchroeder@mastodon.social
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Earning Optimism in 2026

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By Karl Schroeder
| Unapocalyptic Newsletter by Karl Schroeder
What comes after what's next? That's a more important question than how we'll fare in the next five to ten years. Clues are emerging Today I’m going to describe some hard, apocalyptic truths about our short-term future. Basically, using fossil fuels for geopolitical extortion is resulting in catastrophe.
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Either Settle Mars, or Save Earth

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By Karl Schroeder
| Unapocalyptic Newsletter by Karl Schroeder
The vision is compelling: a million people living on Mars by 2050. Humanity, a multi-planet species! The eternal growth of our population envisioned by the longtermists would be guaranteed. Once the ball of consciousness starts rolling across the universe, it might never stop. And we can be the generation to make it happen. Elon Musk says we also need a backup planet, in case we carelessly break this one.
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After the Internet

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By Karl Schroeder
| Substack
In our usual spirit of questioning the unquestionable, let’s consider whether the Internet is really a thing. There’s a history to the idea of an ‘online world.’ It’s explicitly a science-fiction construction, and you can see exactly who popularized it and when. Two key names in this history are William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, who coined “Cyberspace” and “the Metaverse” respectively, as descriptions of a mythical digital space where dramas could be placed.
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