FUTURE

The future is not a forecast. It is a set of decisions already taken, already funded, and probably already in you, by people who never asked.

GRAPHENE: DEATH BY A MILLION CUTS

The wonder material has no exposure limit anywhere on earth, and it is already in the food, the soil and the brain.

Each sheet is a blade one atom thick, too fine for any optical microscope to see and too durable for the body to expel. That is the shape that made asbestos lethal, and we are now making it by the tonne, with no legal limit in any country and no cohort of workers being watched. The bill does not fall due until the 2040s, which is exactly why nobody is counting.

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