civilization
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It’s bleak slapstick about how audiences should react to the end of civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The most notable material is the rise of its first technological civilization just over a million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
I met the owner, Ada Tourtsakis, at her yurt on the outer edge of Sedona’s civilization.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
If tech bros are saying that AI might someday break containment and take down civilization, that sounds like an accountability sink coupled with an investor pitch.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
For example, Monsieur Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that people were basically generous and kind, and that disagreeable behavior was caused by a poor upbringing and the corrupting influence of civilization.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
What the viewers of Titian’s time would have known is that the painting depicts the mythical moment in which the Phoenician and Cretan civilizations began to conjoin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
New research now suggests that higher radio frequencies could offer another valuable place to search for technological signals from distant civilizations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Human civilizations across the ages have understood this to be an important lesson, which is how gold became the go-to cautionary symbol for greed, vanity, and the hollow existence to which they lead.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
To communicate with other civilizations, we require a method adequate not merely for interplanetary distances but for interstellar distances.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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