emerging technology & the future

• a framework for thinking about the future. research areas worth thinking about (2024).

• what we will have achieved by 2100. a scattering of low-confidence predictions; more fun than scientific (2023).

• Exploring dreamscapes. dreams and VR could be two underexplored levers in unlocking human potential (2023).

• AI progress & philosophy. snippets of learnings (2023).

• AI & art. on the evolution of human expression (2022).

• Posthumanity and the Future of BCI Startups. exploring a transhuman future (Predict, 2020).

• a response to “effective accelerationism”. on the preservation of consciousness and humanity (2022).

• technological determinism in bullet points. tech will disproportionately impact individual identity (2020)

• what debates in 2050 could look like: a series exploring ideas relevant to the medium-term future

  • Identity (2023).

technology & product design

• another twitter take. brief commentary on product changes & user retention (2022).

• the curious allure of dating apps. dating app neuroscience and product design (2021).

• An Open Letter to Nonmillennials. The implications of growing up in a phygital world (OneZero Digest, 2019).

fiction

• Status-conscious. a meditation on collective consciousness (2022).

• what the future will look like. a techno-optimistic outlook (2021).

• we don’t read poetry anymore. meditations on the attention economy (2022).

• waiting for superman. submission for an EA writing contest (2021).

• down the trash chute. Coming soon.

meta

• 100 questions for 2022. on tech, cause prioritisation, system design, and meaning (2021-22)

• on the simulation argument and virtual worlds. a semi-technical stream of consciousness (2021).

• deterministic chaos. The universe is written, but incalculable (2021).

misc. research

• Gamification Techniques in Mobile Health Applications. A proposed investigation to explore the effectiveness of gamification techniques in promoting goal-directed behaviour in mobile health app users

• Karate-Do: Politics, Secrecy, and Tradition in the Art of the Empty Hand. Exploring the role of social and political factors in the development and spread of Shotokan karate.

• Explaining the irrational appeal of the word ‘potato’: an empirical investigation of lexical preferences. Coming soon.

reflections

• a tiny manifesto for incoming college students. reflections from a weathered graduating student (2021).

• A Pandemic Rant. Fragmented thoughts on isolation, identity, and technology in the pandemic-paradigm (2020).

• Learning to be a Japanese Karateka. An adapted letter that I wrote to my Sensei, telling them about my experiences learning karate in Tokyo, and my subsequent insights into Japanese culture (2019, The Empty Hand).

older writing

• the (incomplete) bull case for BCIs

• How to Prepare for AI. the survival guide for living amongst superintelligence (2020, Towards Data Science).

• AI’s Biggest Crime Yet — Stealing the Freedom of Human Expression. (Hackernoon, 2018).

• 0x11: The Societal Impact of AI (Bots+Beer, 2018).

• The Questions We’re Going to be Asking When Artificial Intelligence Takes Over. (Hackernoon. 2018).

• Fitness, Longevity, Preventive Healthcare & Wearable Tech. Health perception in India, the rise of mobile wellness apps, and how the GOQii platform can be leveraged to provide the complete healthcare experience (Written for GOQii, 2019).

• 100 Questions About the Past, Present & Future of Humanity. Capitalism, happiness, AI, and the human condition: a radical, unrefined stream of consciousness (Hackernoon, 2019).