Janne M. Korhonen
I've been restarting my blogging. Here's a piece about the defining challenge of this century: restraint and #limits. Or, how to live safely together with already weakly godlike powers that #technology has brought forth. #Power #Sustainability #Democracy jmkorhonen.net/2025/11/28/l...

Learning to live with weakly g...
Learning to live with weakly godlike tools

Technology has already given us weakly godlike powers. As our tools become even more powerful and accessible, the defining challenge of this century is setting the limits to their use — and t…

The unpublished notebooks of J. M. Korhonen
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As acknowledged in the link in the text, my favorite term for our technological powers - "weakly godlike" - comes from the great novelette "A Colder War", by @cstross.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy . I read it at least once a year, and I think you ought to too :) www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/cold...

A Colder War - a novelette by ...
A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross

Roger isn't a soldier. He's not much of a patriot, either. He's just scared when 20 pages of sheer terror land on his CIA desk.