In this video‑essay episode, I dive into the new punk rockers of our time: the Cypherpunks, the Solarpunks, and the Afrofuturists. I use them as starting points to sketch a future where privacy, symbiotic building, climate justice, and Afro/Global Majority speculative imagination all collide. I also touch on how it is all a culmination of ordinary people standing at the edge of it all, refusing to accept the world as it is. This episode asks what it would mean if we treated that edge not as a danger zone, but as the place where we finally build something better for all of us.

The big questions in this essay:
- Why does privacy matter? Not just for “hackers,” but for anyone who wants dignity, safety, and room to dream?
- Why, with all our technology and imagination, are we still not changing the world at the scale we could?
- Why do we hesitate to see ourselves as the heroes of this story, even as everything pushes us toward the edge?
- Do we have permission to demand more from our tech, our communities, and our future, or are we doomed to perpetually seek permission to exist and use these tools?

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Where in your own life can you be a bit more Cypherpunk, a Solarpunk, or an Afrofuturist?