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May 2025

April 2025

April 27: The system as a third actor; why AI needs solar; how to infect a large language model
One of the topics in World Builders that needs development is the notion of a spectrum of dominance.
April 23: Trump as fantasist; American simulations; and the logic of decoupling
You have to admire Trump’s peculiar genius.
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Bruno Maçães
The Age of World Building Has Begun
Toynbee remarks in one of his essays that for an Englishman in 1897 history seemed to have come to an end.
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Bruno Maçães

July 2023

The rebuilding macroeconomic theory project: Keynes
Among the once unquestionable beliefs that may now take a new meaning is the idea of the economy as a living organism.
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Bruno Maçães
The Taiwan Conundrum
We recently attended a workshop on the future of Taiwan with a delegation of very senior scholars from China coordinated and led by Tsinghua University.
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Bruno Maçães
Where the Sun Never Sets: Towards a Solar Civilization
I argued in Geopolitics for the End Time that what we saw during the pandemic, a race against every other country, often drawing a form of perverse…
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Bruno Maçães

May 2023

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Electricity and the American century: of all forms of energy electricity is the most modern, and the most virtual
In the twentieth century, “increases in all forms of energy use made the United States the most highly powered society in world history” (David Nye).
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Bruno Maçães
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The underworld, a system of modern energetics
The twentieth century brought about a different kind of civilisation.
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Bruno Maçães
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