If AI Doesn’t Wipe Your Memory, Maybe Plastics Will
Future generations may lose their YouTube, their abs and their minds. But at least they’ll be rich enough to buy more Labubus.
Coming for a planet near you.
Photographer: Na Bian/Bloomberg
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It’s August: The sun is bright, the beach is balmy and the woods are beckoning. So naturally, I spent a my week thinking about nuclear Armageddon. The global catastrophe that, fortunately, we avoided for two generations of children — just in time to replace it in our nightmares with climate Armageddon.