Toward Ethical Parallel Knowledge Systems

Let’s Review…

In Part One, we examined how the true threat of AI in the knowledge economy lies not simply in automation, but in shifting collective behaviors around how people seek out, use, and value knowledge—displacing academics, journalists, and origi...

What Smuggling Teaches Us About AI and Knowledge Creators

Centralized Power and the Fragility of Intellectual Freedom

We saw in Part Two the themes of intellectual gate-keeping and the tactic of silencing voices or groups outside of established centralized power. Returning now to our present...

Power, Persecution, and Preservation of Knowledge

Top-Down and Bottom-Up

In an earlier series, I explored how knowledge was preserved and destroyed during previous Ages of Air. If you’re unfamiliar with astrological Ages, I explained that in "AI and Big Data, Historical Cycles & What to ...

Who Pays for Knowledge in the Age of AI?(1)

I was talking the other day with a friend who works in the open-access space.(2) I was venting because, in a single week, I ran into the same problem from two sides of my trade—first as a consumer, then...

Libraries, Books and Their Phoenix-Like Life-cycles

In Part 1, we explored how astrological cycles signal repeating themes across history, and in Part 2 we saw how the alignment of knowledge with power often made libraries and archives vulnerable to destruction. Yet histor...

Where We're Headed...

As discussed in Part 1 of this series, astrological cycles provide historical data that help us glimpse what may unfold in a current cycle and weigh the choices before us. Today's buzz around AI offers a timely lens to revisit earlier ...

Introduction – The Stress of Not Knowing

The sheer volume of content about AI, big data, and the challenge of separating truth from misinformation is unavoidable these days. And I’ll admit—the uncertainty can feel anxiety-provoking. Out of curiosity, I searched “anxiety and artificial intelligen...