
I have never trusted the stories societies tell themselves about progress. They are too smooth, too triumphant, too eager to forget the debris accumulating at the edges of the map. When I write about society and innovation, I am not crafting prophecies; I am excavating the layers of a world we already inhabit. The future…

Linguistics shapes stories the way geology shapes landscapes: quietly, relentlessly, and with layers far older than the storyteller. When we talk about “finding a voice,” we are really talking about discovering which linguistic strata we stand on. Every narrative is built from choices in sound, rhythm, syntax, and cultural meaning long before it is built…