Prelude
Finally, I found time to start writing. Let me give a bit more detail about my plans with this blog. It's been my long intention to put my thoughts into words instead of locking them away in my mind.
If anything, this is a selfish endeavor. Aside from testing my writing ability and seeing what needs improvement, I'll get a break from all the technical bureaucratic garbage I type out nowadays. A great opportunity just opened up to take more risks and get intellectually messy.
My interests are unconventional if not outright strange to most people. I pursued an academic career in computer science working on high-performance computing, but spend a good bit of time thinking about the nature of this reality. Even though my days are filled with clean-cut and dry problems, I find myself wandering back to disciplines I would have studied if life ran at a different pace. My mind revels back to those creative writing prompts in gothic lit or the time I played devil's advocate in ethics, defending the case for plant rights under effective altruism.
With all that's going on in the world, I've been getting more frequent episodes of what I can only describe as temporal vertigo, the feeling that some unavoidable event is just past the preconscience horizon. For that reason, I wanted to build this blog with retrospectives on ideas I think capture the current climate and it's tendency towards inciting that feeling in people.
The world is getting weirder and weirder and weirder, and now, there's not much else to do but to point it out.

To be direct about the premise of this blog, consider the following:
History is not random. Events across time rhyme though not necessarily repeat.
We are living through a unique period in human history where many things that were once seen as fantasy are becoming ever more real.
Either as the catalyst or as an artifact of a deeper phenomenon, technology plays a strong role in the changes we see in our new world.
Echoes from the Great Ravine revolves around themes of technological predestination and the directionality of human civilization. At this time I'm formatting the blog to include two series with some one offs sprinkled here and there. Stay tuned for posts along the series titled:
On Strange Attractors in Time
Emergent Systems in Computation Space
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