Yang Hong

From Earthly Equifinality to Cosmofinality: The Astrohydrologist's Odessey

This speculative futures essay follows a hydrologist across the eras of the discipline, from empiricism through computation, remote sensing and artificial intelligence to an imagined astrohydrology, as Earth’s water cycle collapses after an off-system solar anomaly. Told in the first person from the year 2100, it uses...