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Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

Technology

The Secret of Buckminister Fuller’s World-Changing Ideas Was Serendipity

Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, writer, and artist. He is the award-winning author of six books on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona, a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder, a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, principal philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at Biosphere 2.

Jonathon Keats

Communication

Let’s Play War

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