The Open Visor

Why this newspaper?

People often ask me how one person can do so many different things at once — designing coatings, sketching a fusion reactor, writing about democracy. My answer is always the same: because it is all the same thing. Whoever understands the flow of water around a ship's hull also understands why a society stagnates.

By Jacobus van Merksteijn — 8 min read

In this edition

Education

From learning factory to workshop

Why a school that turns out a hundred bare passes is worth less than one that turns out fifty with distinction.

9 min read

Energy

A fusion reactor without a magnetic cage

Imagine a drain in which the water spins faster and faster. Now do the same with plasma.

11 min read

Science

Everything flows — the mother of all sciences

Air, blood, money, ideas and plasma obey remarkably similar laws. Why does nobody teach that?

10 min read

Technology

What is already on the table

SeaSkin, GuardSkin, AeroSkin, TerraClean — working technologies waiting to be scaled.

8 min read

Synthesis

How it all connects

One thread through seven subjects: stop thinking in boxes, start thinking in flows.

7 min read

Readers

How to take part in the discussion

The rules, AI moderation, and the first questions on which I am asking for your response.

5 min read