Don’t get too comfortable

Super-smart people are predicting collapse – and not so far in the future either.

Looking for metaphors since 1966: Today, a garden table, tomorrow, civilisation?

On Monday, the Macquarie Dictionary announced its annual word of the year. Even before I clicked through to see what it was I had a sense of it … I thought it might be “collapse” (as in, civilisation’s collapse). I was wrong, but the winner, “enshittification”, is surely jus…