About

The Threshold is written by someone working outside academia, with a background in software and a long-standing interest in how complex systems behave at their limits.

This is not a project about expertise or authority. It is an attempt to think carefully about questions that tend to resist familiar frameworks — in science, technology, and the futures we imagine for ourselves.

Astronomy, exobiology and extreme planetary environments are recurring reference points here, not as subjects of fascination, but as tests of our assumptions.

The same approach applies to topics such as long-term futures, transhumanism, space exploration, advanced computation, emerging medical technologies, energy systems, and language.

What matters is not the domain, but the moment at which intuition starts to fail and thinking must slow down.

This space is not optimised for speed, visibility, or persuasion. It exists to explore ideas with care, to remain honest about uncertainty, and to resist the pressure to turn complexity into spectacle.