EDITORIAL The bursting of the AI bubble is certainly cause for concern. But there is something worse: that it might not burst at all... In two weeks’ time, Europe will celebrate Halloween, this dark festival from across the Atlantic with a massive influx of unnecessary consumption. Seeing the first unwrappings of these horrible, skull-shaped plastic pumpkins, I can’t help but compare the imagery on which America placed itself at the centre of the ‘free world’ in the 1950s with the one on which it has been killing both freedom and the world since the 1990s. I choose my words carefully. What if the tech bubble never burst?... The great future-crusher is running at full speed, and even the GEAB despairs of seeing what could stop it. The mad dash in which the US has emarked, forcing the entire world to follow suit, and  consisting of absorbing almost all of the planet’s most vital resources (money, energy, water, air, human lives) to plough them back into a delusional project of absolute global technological domination, is accelerating… as if that were still possible. The most recent example prompting us

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