John: The Anthropocene Reviewed will not be his last book (2021)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2026-03-31) · owner: John
In 2021 John hoped The Anthropocene Reviewed would not be his last book, and over the following years said he was writing again. In 2026 he noted that Everything Is Tuberculosis had come out the year before and Hollywood, Ending was coming out that year.
Told alongside: Everything Is Tuberculosis: John's nonfiction book about tuberculosis (2024) · John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020) · John's 'amazing Lectro Jog of Amazing' paper jogger (2011) · John: he will never again sign his name 250,000 times (2021) · John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020)
About: The Anthropocene Reviewed (book), Lectrojog
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-30 | predicted | Wanting more work for the LectroJog, John hopes The Anthropocene Reviewed will not be his last book. (hedged) | I did it! 00:02:25 |
| 2021-08-24 | repeated | Working on The Anthropocene Reviewed has been incredible, but John thinks he is ready to go back to writing fiction, maybe, after a long pause. (hedged) | It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. 00:00:58 |
| 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) | repeated | Though a book takes him years, John is looking forward to it, enjoying the fun and immersion of writing, and wants to focus on it. | I have been playing a small trick on you. 00:02:55 |
| 2023-10-17 | repeated | John says he is writing, loves writing, and will have a next book, hopefully someday soon. | My Next Book 00:03:46 |
| 2026-03-31 (happened 2025) | came true | John last published books in consecutive years in 2005 and 2006; now, 20 years later, Everything Is Tuberculosis came out last year (2025) and Hollywood, Ending comes out this year (2026). | I've Been Keeping a Secret… 00:00:29 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John first took the chatbot's million-year life expectancy as good news, then fell into a new quandary: does he really want to live a million years? (playful) — 00:01:38
- 2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: Modern humans have only existed for 250,000 years. — 00:01:38
- 2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: Living through all of human history so far would be extremely exhausting, John feels, and would bring him only a quarter of the way through such a lifespan. (playful) — 00:01:38