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Interconnected Earth

We are a publication dedicated to exploring how life on Earth is deeply interconnected. From mental health and global events to art, philosophy, culture, and beyond, we examine how seemingly separate issues influence one another and shape the world we all share. Our goal is to uncover the threads that connect personal experience with global systems, helping readers better understand the complex, intertwined nature of our planet.

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How Sci-Fi Becomes Reality: When Speculation Turns Into Systems, Products, and Power

InterconnectedEarth3 days ago3 days ago010 mins

Science fiction is often treated as entertainment, escapism, or metaphor. In practice, it functions as an informal research and development lab for civilization. Writers imagine futures, audiences absorb them, engineers and policymakers internalize them, and corporations eventually build them. What begins as speculative narrative becomes technical roadmap, corporate product strategy, and state policy architecture. This…

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Art and Emotional Processing: The Making of Meaning Through Art

InterconnectedEarth1 month ago1 month ago09 mins

Across human history, moments of profound loss, uncertainty, and upheaval have repeatedly given rise to art.

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AI in Animation: Faster Pipelines, Fewer Jobs, and a Creative Industry Under Pressure

InterconnectedEarth1 month ago1 month ago08 mins

This article examines how AI is actually being used in animation today, where it is likely heading, and why the growing reliance on AI in animation may pose serious long-term risks to animators, studios, and the creative integrity of the medium itself.

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Why the Video Game Industry Feels Like It’s in Decline

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago2 months ago09 mins

For years, the video game industry was treated as one of the few “unstoppable” sectors of the global economy. Even when other industries slowed, gaming continued to grow. More players, more revenue, more studios, more investment. By the early 2020s, video games were bigger than film and music combined. So why does the industry now…

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The Invisible Burden: Overwork, Mental Health, and the Systems That Normalize Exhaustion

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago2 months ago08 mins

In today’s hyper-connected world, busy has become a badge of honor. Long hours and overflowing inboxes are worn like medals, often at the expense of our well-being. But beneath the accolades and hustle lies a far deeper issue: the normalization of overwork—not just as an individual challenge, but as a cultural, legal, and media-driven phenomenon…

The November Jobs Report Is Bad — and It Still Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago2 months ago08 mins

Even with October’s missing jobs report, November’s numbers are strange — and they still don’t show the full picture, the November jobs report is bad. Yes, the data is weak. Yes, the outlook is deteriorating. But thanks to the government shutdown, delayed data collection, structural labor shifts, and long-building demographic pressures, this report captures only part of what is actually happening in the economy.

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The New Sound of Music: How AI Is Reshaping the Music Industry

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago44 seconds ago09 mins

In 2025 the conversation around AI music is no longer about whether it’s coming — it’s already here, so what does that really mean?

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The Day the Dream Factory Got Bought Out — What Netflix Means for Hollywood

InterconnectedEarth2 months ago2 months ago06 mins

What this means for Hollywood? This acquisition beyond Wall Street and shareholder value, this deal raises urgent questions about creativity, access, and what it means to make — and watch — films in America.

When the Screen Becomes Code: AI, “Acting”, and the New Media Frontier

InterconnectedEarth4 months ago2 months ago05 mins

Tilly Norwood was introduced not as a human performer, but as a digital persona: a British-accented young woman with an Instagram account, a debut “role” in a short AI-generated piece titled AI Commissioner, and public talk that she might be “represented” by a talent agency.