Hello

You have stumbled upon an artifact of the early 21st century — a collection of text files written by Christopher Butler. More about me here.

Current Status

Right now…

• thinking about prophecy
• examining our reality problem
• tracking the year in various ways
• building Altearth
• on the Brennan: Charlie Parker with Strings, Charlie Parker
• on Audible: How to Stop Time, by Matt Haig
• on the Kindle: Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death, by Robert Moss (~95% complete)
• basking in the completion of the Newfangled.com redesign
• tweeting about sketchbooks, stamps, more stamps, visual literacy texts, the paper internet, individualism vs. the common good, the beauty of computer chips, and coffee.

— updated on Fri, Jan 08, 2021

From the Archive

If you were only to read one thing I’ve written, let it be one of these:

• Progress Bombs
• Digital Resistance is Deletion
• Facebook Isn’t Necessary
• Talking to Machines
• Futures of Making and Being
• We Don’t Fear the Future