Shor Pharn

= Chor Pharn is a Singapore-based futurist, who has been focusing on the history of civilization as human coordination. He pays particular attention to the new Chinese mode, the Sino Stack.

Intellectual Bio

"The essays of the past six months—Eyes Wide Shut, Machine Surplus vs Human Surplus, The Stack: The New Sovereignty, and now The New Rome—trace one continuous argument: that the core challenge of the twenty-first century is how to convert machine surplus into human purpose. The references below form the scaffolding of that argument. They include the Chinese administrative and philosophical sources that shape the Sino-stack; the empirical material from China’s policy experiments in digital governance and infrastructure; and the comparative works—from Heath, Bratton, Dreyer, and others—that situate this transformation within the long history of civilisation’s coordination forms. Together, they outline the intellectual map for what I have been calling a Type-1 civilisation: a world where coherence, not ideology, becomes the central currency of order."

(https://thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-new-rome)