It's not just a name I liked the sound of; it's the best word I can find for how the world feels to me right now. It's fair to say we're not in a stable era, but in the messy, disorienting, and fascinating liminal space between eras. We are standing on the cusp of truly exponential technological change, looking at the dawn of nonhuman intelligence and the profound questions it raises about... well, everything. At the exact same time, the global political order we grew up w...