Edition 1 — Saturday 23 May 2026

The Open Visor

A newspaper about thinking without blinkers

Edition 1 — all articles

Foreword

Why this newspaper?

An inventor who also writes about democracy — that sounds strange, until you realise it is all the same thing.

8 min read
Framework

Three dimensions are not enough

Why we understand the world better when we add three new dimensions: scale, value and multiplicity.

10 min read
Politics

What is wrong with party politics?

An alternative: Nova Democratia, in which decisions on each issue are made by those with something worthwhile to say about it.

12 min read
Education

From learning factory to workshop

A school that turns out a hundred bare passes currently receives more funding than one that turns out fifty with distinction. That is the problem.

9 min read
Energy

A fusion reactor without a magnetic cage

ITER and JET spend billions confining plasma with magnets. My proposal: let the plasma confine itself — through rotation.

11 min read
Science

Everything flows

Air, blood, money, ideas and plasma obey remarkably similar laws. Why does no school 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