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2026 166
- Bringing Tomorrowland back to the future: My interview with ‘Disneyologist’ Art Tavana
- Up Wing economics and the United States of AI
- The undefeated megatrend
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #53
- Stop panicking about a job apocalypse, OK?
- Is America too risk averse?
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #52
- The story of how climate worry has turned into AI worry: My interview with Stephanie Wakefield
- Why France has a nuclear-powered economy—and America doesn't
- The AI Revolution’s green-shoots phase
- The AI state of play: My interview with Ramez Naam
- America 250: a more Up Wing year than you probably realize
- Less ‘Dune,’ more ‘Foundation’
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #51
- A big week for humanity’s future in space
- An update on AI’s economic impact: My interview with Scott Strand of Google’s AI & Economy program
- America is stuck in a zero-sum trap
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #50
- 📈 How economic growth can defeat authoritarianism: My interview with Dalibor Rohac, author of ‘Unshackled’
- ⚛️ If Age of AI ends, so does the New Atomic Age
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #49
- ⚠️ A simple guide to avoiding the AI apocalypse
- ✨ Why verification is AI's real bottleneck: My interview with economist Christian Catalini
- 🎆 Losing the AGI race to China would be bad
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #48
- ⤵ Friday Flashback: Dystopian 'Silo' gives a glimpse of a degrowth world
- 💀 It’s hard to wipe out humanity. Even for super AI
- ✨ My interview with economist Tyler Cowen on the Age of AI (and more)
- ☢ Explaining nuclear-energy fear: My chat with science historian Spencer Weart
- 🤖 Ready or not, here come the humanoids to a workplace near you
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #47
- 🦅🐼 How the US can absolutely lose the 21st century
- 🚀 The New Space Age meets the Age of AI: My interview with Phil Metzger
- 🐭 Disney is revamping Tomorrowland. Here’s what it should do
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #46
- 💢 How did data centers lose their social license?
- 🏁 The Great AI Race as a clash over compute: my interview with analyst Ryan Fedasiuk
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #45
- ↔️ Is progress possible in an empty world?
- ⤴️ Creating a culture of progress: My chat with journalist and author Virginia Postrel
- 🤖 Yes, conservatives can support advanced AI
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #44
- 🎆 An unchanged world in a time of transformative AI
- 💧⚡🖥️ A deep-dive on data centers: My interview with AI researcher Andy Masley
- 🎆 The AI singularity … then what?
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #43
- 🗺️ AI frontier models as America's new frontier
- 📈 The business of AI: My interview with technology analyst and investor Azeem Azhar
- 🔄️✨ Yes, fear of self-improving AI might actually lead to a slowdown
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #42
- 🤖 Let's not turn the OpenAI hacking incident into Three Mile Island
- ✨ How fast is transformative AI approaching?
- ✨ Data center distortions: My interview with energy policy analyst Shuting Pomerleau
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #41
- ✨ Down with American data centers! Up with Chinese AI!
- ✨ Superintelligence soon: How seriously should I take the AI 2040 scenario?
- ✨ My interview with Sebastian Mallaby, author of 'The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence'
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #40
- 🍼 Debunking demographic doom
- 🐭 The 7 most Up Wing films from Disney/Pixar this century
- 🚀 Wall Street on SpaceX: 'Everything depends on Starship.' And they're right
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #39
- 🎈 'To Fly!': The most Up Wing film of the 1976 American Bicentennial
- 🗽 The Up Wing road not taken, 1976
- ↗️ Measuring human welfare in the Age of AI
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #38
- ✨💪 AI, jobs, and productivity: My chat with economist Erik Brynjolfsson
- 💥 How would Alan Greenspan approach the AI boom?
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review #37
- 🚘 Why Waymo is stuck in Big Apple traffic
- 🎆 A serious paper about the path to superintelligence
- ✨ The long-term impact of L'affaire Anthropic
- ⏩ FP! Week In Review, Briefly #36
- 🚀 Elon Musk is a trillionaire. Why that's good news for all of us
- ☀️ Star power, almost within reach
- ✨🧚 What story is Fable telling about the state of AI?
- 🛗 How to finance a space elevator
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #35
- 🚀 SpaceX and the economics of space
- ⤵️ The axis of US decline: anti-data center, anti-AI, anti-nuclear
- 😵💫 AI anxiety and the 3+ confusions of Bernie Sanders
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #34
- 🚀💥 A bad day for the American space program. There will be more. And that's OK
- ⤵️ Decline is still a choice
- ✝️✨ On Pope Leo's AI encyclical letter
- 🐼🦅 Yes, deep concern about China should influence AI policy in Washington
- ✨ How to give a commencement speech about AI without getting booed (too much)
- 🛰️ AI data centers in space are no joke
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #33
- 📱 How social media is saving the AI revolution
- ✨🏁 The AI race that may matter most: 3 scenarios
- ✨💪 AI can do the work. Companies still aren't sure they trust it
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #32
- ✨ AI needs a report card, not a Washington permission slip
- 💥 Are we just 18 months away from everything changing?
- 🧬 The case for growth is the case for life
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #31
- 🚀 The high frontiersman: Gerard K. O'Neill
- ✨💪 The future of work in an age of AI: My chat with economist Daniel Rock
- ☢️ 40 years on, Chernobyl reconsidered
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #30
- 🛸 What's the 'greatest American utopian science fiction story' ever written?
- ⤵️ Here's why Europe produces Nobel laureates but not Elon Musks
- ✨ AI deserves neither dismissal nor doom-mongering
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #29
- ⚠️ Regulate AI now—or else?
- ⤴️ Does 'Project Hail Mary' help Project Up Wing?
- ⚕️ Let's cure cancer
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #28
- 🏗️ A hub for hard-tech startups: My chat with 'American Shenzhen' builder Joshua Farahzad
- ✨🛡️ The Mythos opportunity: The best cyber-firewall is the one that thinks
- 🤍 OpenAI: We feel your anxiety
- 🌕 Artemis flyby: A not-so-small step toward a lunar return—and more
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #27
- ✨ AI's phony war?
- ⤴️ An Up Wing future is possible: A Quick Q&A with … the authors of 'A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come'
- 🪖💡 War is bad for ideas
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #26
- 🚀 'For All Mankind,' for real
- ✨ The Age of AI, an update: My chat with policy analyst Dean Ball
- 🏙️ Higher love: The case for building up
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #25
- ⚡ Electric America, Electric West
- ✨🍼 Artificial intelligence faces a fertility test
- 🚼 America's worst public intellectual, RIP
- ⚡ Wargaming an AGI cyber surprise
- ⚡ War reminds us of civilization’s true currency
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #24
- ⚛️ A nuclear step forward—maybe
- ✨ The race to economic supremacy in the Age of AGI
- ⚠️ L'affaire Anthropic: When government bullies the builders
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #23
- 🚀 How to get from here to there—way out there, actually
- ✨⚕️ Must AI cure cancer?
- ✨ The end of work? Not yet—maybe not ever
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #22
- 🌎 Storm watch: My chat with climate policy expert Roger Pielke Jr.
- 🧬 The FDA's Moderna mRNA reversal
- 🔥 American hot rocks
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #21
- ✨ AI’s superintelligence gamble
- 💥 AI anxiety: Is 'something big happening,' really?
- 🌕 Occupy Luna: Elon Musk's gravity arbitrage
- 🚼 The case against fertility panic
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #20
- ⏸️💨 The pause before the gale
- ☄️Awaiting apocalypse: My chat with journalist and author Dorian Lynskey
- 🤖 What to think about the Moltbook Moment
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #19
- ⤴️ Beyond Abundance: My chat with Brink Lindsey about his new book, 'The Permanent Problem'
- 🕛 The Doomsday Clock is a myth machine
- ⛈️ The AI jobs 'bloodbath' that keeps getting postponed
- 💥🔄️ The AI Boom Loop
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #18
- 📈 Democracy's growth dependence
- ⚡ America's electrostate inevitability
- ⚛️ A final (and lasting?) nuclear revival: My chat with nuclear energy advocate Jessica Lovering
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #17
- 🤖 Humanoid robots arrive just as humans stop showing up
- 🏰 Lessons on AI and art from the Magic Kingdom
- ⚛️ Why small reactors may be more than nuclear wishcasting
- ✨ Don’t expect an AI job apocalypse
- ✨ AI agents are a real thing and doing real work
- 😱 The stories that teach America to fear the future
- 📈 The most underrated trend of the 2020s
- 🛢️✨ What the shale boom tells us about the AI boom
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- ✨ Waiting for AGI, still
- 🎄Christmas: an Up Wing 'festival of optimism'
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #16
- 🌻 Climate politics hits the limits of 'no'
- 🧬✨ An AI-genetics revolution — and arms race: A Quick Q&A with Bill Drexel
- ✨ Two cheers for the 'San Francisco Consensus' on AI
- 🚀 After we get to Mars, then what?
- ⚡ Tracking a 200-year energy wager
- 🛑🚼 The end of (demographic) history
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #15
- 💰🧪 Funding outside the box: A Quick Q&A with … philanthropy expert Stuart Buck
- 😀😱 Of 'Pluribus' and progress
- 🤖👴 AI vs. age: The great offset
- ⚔️☠️ The billionaire war against death
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #14
- 🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier
- ⤴️ Singularity 1.0: The birth of modernity
- ✨🧠 Teaching students to think, not just scroll, in the Age of AI
- ✨🗽 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on AI and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
- 🦅 Why the US outgrows Europe, unfortunately
- 🌋 Hot rocks, new politics
- 🔃 How bad policy can offset the AI boom
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #13
- 🧠🌐 The Brilliance Dividend
- ✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with researcher Tom Davidson
- ☀️ A California dream that should come true
- ✨😨 How AI anxiety threatens a new age of progress
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #12
- ✨ The Age of AI is starting to bloom
- 🗽 I love progress, which is why I love liberal democracy
- ✨ Are we ready for a rogue AI attack? We should be
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #11
- 🎬 Hollywood’s doomer economy
- ✨ 🗽 How Washington might end up 'backstopping' OpenAI
- 🚀 The trillion-dollar space race: My chat (+transcript) with journalist Christian Davenport
- ✨ Thinking machines won't need us. And that's OK
- 🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #10
- ✨🗑️ How to waste a tech boom
- 🌫️ 🔮 The fog of war and the fog of the future
- ✨ Getting AI policy right: A Quick Q&A with … economist Samuel Hammond
- 🌾 How environmental virtue signaling starves the poor
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #9
- 🤖 Thoughts of a (rare) free-market AI doomer: My chat (+transcript) with economist James Miller
- ⚛️ Regulators, not reactors, are the real nuclear risk
- 🚀 NASA (and moonshot 2.0) is in meltdown mode
- ✨ Would AGI be no big deal?
- ⏩ Why the West took off 250 years ago and China didn't
- ⚛️⚡Advocating a new Atomic Age: A Quick Q&A with … nuclear evangelist Jenifer Avellaneda
- 🚀 Jeff Bezos plans a Space Age reboot
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #8
- 🎒 The war against gifted education continues, Zohran Mamdani edition
- 🛑 Why progress stops : My chat (+transcript) with economist Carl Benedikt Frey
- ✨😨 Bernie Sanders' misguided AI jobs panic
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #7
- ⤵️ The degrowth United Nations
- 🦅🐼 Sizing up US-China AI strategy: A Quick Q&A with … Kyle Chan
- ☀️ ✨ The strange divorce of nuclear fusion and super AI wagers
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #6
- 🤖 AI risks and rewards: My chat (+transcript) with AI researcher Miles Brundage
- 🏙️ Time to build ... new US cities
- ✨ AI as a 'normal technology' would still be amazing
- 🎇🦀 The Giant, Bioengineered Crab Bias theory of AI optimism
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #5
- 🛡 Math vs. Trump's dreamy Golden Dome
- 🧬 Why 'great genes' matter for the American economy
- 🎇 Searching for signals of soonish superintelligence
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly #4
- 🛩️ Human aspiration and the legacy of 'To Fly!': My chat (+transcript) with filmmaker Greg MacGillivray
- 🛑 Stopping political violence, ASAP
- ✨💰 A world where Sam Altman and Elon Musk are AI trillionaires
- 💀 The paradox of p(doom): Why doomer talk makes policy action less likely
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly
- 🛑✨ Luddite's lament: Josh Hawley offers an anti-AI screed
- ✨ Brace yourself: The AI Revolution isn't about job creation
- 🎇🔬 The super AI-nanotech parallel
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly
- 🚀 A Quick Q&A with economist Matt Weinzierl on the growing business of space
- ✨ AI is having job effects. And that's OK
- ✋ What are the limits to Trumpian state capitalism?
- 🚀 F,P! Week In Review, Briefly
- 👶 Bracing for depopulation: My chat (+transcript) with 'After the Spike' coauthor Dean Spears
- 🚀🌑 China will probably beat America back to the Moon. Then what?
- 😧 Learning the right lessons from the 1980s Japan panic
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #57
- 🚀 Jim Lovell, 'Earthrise,' and Apollo 13
- 👪🐶 When the cries of children are replaced by the bark of dogs
- 🏁 Mimicking China isn't how the US should race against China
- ⚛️ Our fission-powered future: My chat (+transcript) with nuclear scientist and author Tim Gregory
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #56
- ✨ GPT-5 is a step forward, not a leap — and that’s OK
- ⏩🎇 Awaiting the AI acceleration: A Quick Q&A with … researchers Anson Ho and Andrei Potlogea
- 🧬 RFK Jr.’s dumb war on mRNA vaccines and America’s medical future
- ✨🎈 If the AI boom goes bust, then what?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #55
- ⚔ The AI Revolution vs. chaotic US economic policy
- ✨ AI and the future of R&D: My chat (+transcript) with McKinsey's Michael Chui
- 🎇 Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence'
- ⤴ The welcome Up Wing tech-optimism of 'The Fantastic Four'
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #54
- 📊 The US economy at midyear: My chat (+transcript) with economic analyst Joey Politano
- ⚠ America has a bright future. Let's talk about what could prevent it from happening
- ✨ Trump's new AI plan is necessary but insufficient
- ⤴⤵ The rise and (maybe) fall of NEPA: A Quick Q&A with … law professor Nicholas Bagley
- 🛑 Here’s how it all went wrong. Let's not repeat the mistake
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #53
- 🏫⤴ Why every student should study the history of progress (Flashback Friday)
- ✨🤖 3 ways that AI could kill us all
- 🐼 😲 Bracing for China Shock 2.0
- 📉 🔙 Another terrible degrowth argument
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #52
- 🔚 Lessons from the end of the world: Why we take civilization for granted
- 🎇 An age of transformation: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Peter Leyden
- 🗽⤴ Elon Musk's America Party: Is It Up Wing?
- 🌎🎇 Geopolitics + superintelligence: 8 scenarios
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #51
- 🗽 America at (almost) 250: It still works!
- 🎦🤖 'Jurassic Park's' surprising lesson about AI, automation, and jobs
- 🚀 Blue Origin and America's spacefaring future
- ✨ America's AI lead over China: Here's why it will continue
- ✨ 5 takeaways from Peter Thiel's NYT chat with Ross Douthat
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #50
- ⤴🎞 The 7 most Up Wing films of the 21st Century
- ✨ 🧬 When AI meets biotechnology: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Jamie Metzl
- 👶📉 3 long-shot ways to solve the global baby bust
- 🤖🚗 Self-driving cars are finally shifting gears
- 🎇💥 Strike on Iran shows why US doesn't want to lose the AI race
- 🚀💥 Time to worry about SpaceX and Starship?
- 🗽 The legacy and future of liberalism: A Quick Q&A with … economist Deirdre McCloskey
- ✨ The AI economy is here
- ✨ How the AI Boom is like the Internet Boom (and how it isn't)
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #49
- ⤴ America's megaproject imperative
- 🚀 NASA and the New Space Age: My chat (+transcript) with James Meigs
- 🎇 Sam Altman's 'gentle singularity' message to an anxious public
- 📱⏩ Why the Tech Right probably has few regrets about Trump (for now)
- ✨ Some good news: The latest on AI and business
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #48
- 🚀 How SpaceX is making a space Mayflower voyage possible: Flashback Friday
- ⏩ Debating 'progress': A Quick Q&A with … Samuel Matlack of New Atlantis
- ✨⚡ The Up Wing combo of AI and energy
- 🌑 Did America just lose the Moon?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #47
- ⤴🎦 An Up Wing film from a Down Wing decade
- ⚡ Washington and the New Energy Revolution: How's it going?
- ⚛️ ⚡✨ AI’s Need for Nuclear: A Quick Q&A with … energy writer and historian Emmet Penney
- ✨ Why even supersmart AI might never take all the jobs
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #46
- 🎇 Cold War lessons for an Age of Superintelligence
- 💻 Tech-Savvy Tallinn: A Quick Q&A with … technologist Joel Burke on Estonian “E-Government”
- 🎇📰 The New York Times vs AGI
- ⚛⚡ Is there a long German word for regret over rejecting nuclear energy?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #45
- 🗽🧠 America needs to get more out of its high-IQ kids
- ✨ 😷 AI and the radiologist apocalypse that wasn't
- ⚡ AI + energy: A Quick Q&A with … Mark Jamison on permitting reform
- ⤴ Productivity paradox
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #44
- ✨✝ The AI Pope
- 🤖 Superintelligence and national security: My chat (+transcript) with AI expert Dan Hendrycks
- ☀ The continuing case for an American Golden Age
- ✨ DeepSeek and tariffs fail to undermine the AI investment boom (so far)
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #43
- 🗽 America's immigration edge: My chat (+transcript) with policy expert Alex Nowrasteh
- 🗽⤵ Why American growth falters despite abundant ideas
- 🌌👩🌾 Terraforming Mars: A Quick Q&A with … Edwin Kite and Robin Wordsworth on designing a new home beyond Earth
- ✨ Permissionless innovation in the Age of AI
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #42
- 🎇 Yikes! What if AGI isn't possible with LLMs?
- 🏙🔎 America’s missing megalopolis mystery (Throwback Thursday)
- 💥 ☢ An explosive climate solution: A Quick Q&A with … software engineer Andy Haverly on geoengineering with nuclear bombs
- ✨☠ We can do better than merely surviving AI 'extinction'
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #41
- 🔬 Federal R&D cuts would be another (massive) unforced policy error
- 🌾 Land of plenty: My chat (+transcript) with science journalist Charles C. Mann on the agricultural history you never learned
- 👩🚀🎖 Space tourist Katy Perry, hero of progress
- ⤴ ⚛ The larger meaning behind the rising popularity of nuclear energy
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #40
- ✨ The state of AI, heading into the America Trade Shock
- 🌐⚔ Trade wars and rumors of trade wars
- ✨🏛️ The political economy of AI: A Quick Q&A with … policy analyst Anton Leicht
- ✨ Civilizational stakes and opportunity costs
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #39
- 🌐 Tariffs are no cure for America's future fiscal solvency
- 🌦 Golden Age? Welcome to Trump's gloomy Iron Age (for now)
- 📈 Democrats and abundance: A Quick Q&A with … tech policy expert Adam Kovacevich
- ✨📉 AI progress amid macroeconomic wreckage
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #38
- ✨🤖 What jobs today are really most AI vulnerable?
- ⤴ Up Wing politics: A chat with sociologist Steve Fuller (Throwback Thursday)
- 🧬 MAGA vs. the transhumanists of Silicon Valley
- ⚛️ Our nuclear problem: A Quick Q&A with … economist Eli Dourado on NRC overreach
- ✨ A twist on the notion that big ideas are getting harder to find
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #37
- 🚀 Mars or bust! My chat (+transcript) with aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin
- ✨ The Age of AI: Today? Tomorrow? When?
- 🌎📈 Humanity's capacity to grow and thrive: A Quick Q&A with … research analyst Ben Landau-Taylor
- 🧠 Have we really passed Peak Brain Power?
- 📈 Back to the Nineties? My chat (+transcript) with economist Skanda Amarnath on the 2020s productivity outlook
- 🎇☠ The economics of AI apocalypse
- 🤖 The Right vs. the robots
- 🌐 Trump boom vs. tariff doom
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #36
- 🌅 America's new Golden Age: an update
- 🚀 My chat (+transcript) with economist Matt Weinzierl on the growing business of space
- 🎇 What if super AI happens during Trump's presidency?
- 🤖 Why China might lead the Robot Revolution
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #35
- 👶 Progressive pronatalism: A Quick Q&A with … philosopher Victor Kumar
- 👶 Lessons on birth rates: Japan and South Korea
- ✨🎇🎆 Talkin’ bout an AI Revolution: 3 scenarios
- 🗽 America: 2076
- 🎇📈 A Quick Q&A on predicting super AI through bond markets with … Trevor Chow
- 🏠 👶 Birth-rate worriers should care about housing deregulation
- 🌳 🌈 Time for a hard reset for environmental policy: A Quick Q&A with … Emily Domenech
- ⤴ The Formula for the Future
- ✨🎇 The great AI forecasting divide
- ⚔️🎇 Why the US military should plan for human-level AI
- 📜 Granting rights to AI may save humanity: A Quick Q&A with … Simon Goldstein
- ✨⏩ JD Vance offers an accelerationist AI vision in Paris
- ☄ What asteroid 2024 YR4 teaches about techno-capitalism and risk
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #34
- 🎇 Stargate isn't enough. Save the NSF
- ✨ The Age of AI, an update: A Quick Q&A with … economist Michael Strain
- 🚀 Beyond 'The Jetsons': A new vision of a fantastic future that never was
- 🏗️ Permitting ourselves to build: A Quick Q&A with … energy policy expert James Coleman
- 🌐✨ Trade and AI uncertainty are not the same
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #33
- 🌍 My chat (+transcript) with researcher Toby Ord on existential risk
- ✨⏩ What DeepSeek means for faster AI-driven economic growth
- ☀ The Doomsday Clock needs a pro-progress switch to the Genesis Clock
- ✨ DeepSeek drama: The optimistic case for AI spending momentum
- ✨ Begun, the US vs. China AI race has
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #32
- ✨ DeepSeek, China's new AI challenge
- 🤖 My chat (+transcript) with journalist Nicole Kobie on why the future of tech still hasn’t arrived
- ✨⚡ Can we actually build Stargate?
- ⚛️🌟 Our fusion future: A Quick Q&A with … nuclear engineer Michael Ford
- 🌅 A (new) American Golden Age
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #31
- ✨☢ A (pricey) Manhattan Project for AI Safety?
- ⚡ My chat (+transcript) with Virginia Postrel on promoting a culture of dynamism
- ✨⏩ AI acceleration: the solution to AI risk
- 🍼 Confronting global population collapse: A Quick Q&A with … demographer Nick Eberstadt
- 🌾 Can we feed the future?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #30
- 🌞☁️ Pro-growthers are having a moment. But so are degrowthers
- ⚡️ When Jimmy Carter proposed his own DOGE
- 💊💉 The future of weight loss drugs: A Quick Q&A with … analyst (and superforecaster) Greg Justice
- ✨ While tech CEOs talk up AGI imminence, real-world AI use cases emerge
- ✨ The Age of AI: Will 2025 be our last normal year?
- ✨😈 Is AI really a 'deal with the devil?'
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- 🗽✨ Yes, more skilled immigration is good for America
- ✨ Life in an AI utopia: A Quick Q&A with futurist and philosopher Nick Bostrom
- ✨🎄 Some AGI optimism: an early Xmas present
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #29
- 🚀 What did they take from us, exactly?
- 🌐 My chat (+transcript) with chaos theorist Doyne Farmer on our interconnected economy
- 🌌 Why 'Interstellar' is an Up Wing masterpiece
- 🚫 AI, job licensing, and upward mobility: A Quick Q&A with … economist Vincent Geloso
- ⏩💳 How faster growth can offset America's debt problem. Really.
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #28
- 🎨 My chat (+transcript) with innovation expert Duncan Wardle on practical tips for corporate creativity
- 🤖🚘 Even as GM retreats, self-driving cars continue to advance
- 🗽🧠 Pro-immigration policy and mutual brain gain: A Quick Q&A with … economist Gaurav Khanna
- ⤴✊ The techno-optimism of a 1970s Black Power activist and poet
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #27
- ✨🤖 Age of AI, meet the Robot Revolution
- 🧪 The US productivity problem that no one talks about (enough)
- 🚀 Missions to Mars: A Quick Q&A with … space analyst Peter Hague
- 👁 The Fed (maybe) sees a glimpse of the Age of AI
- ✨ My chat (+transcript) with tech policy expert Neil Chilson on regulating GenAI
- ⏩ Trump’s 3% growth challenge
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #26
- 🛰 The story of the US Space Force: A Quick Q&A with … defense policy analyst Todd Harrison
- ✨ 📈 The AI Paradox: When will artificial intelligence boost US economic growth?
- 🧠 Supporting America's smartest kids: A Quick Q&A with … political scientist Charles Murray
- 🎭✨ Ben Affleck’s wise words on AI
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #25
- 📉 Well, they ran the numbers on degrowth — and it's not good
- 🏘️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Bryan Caplan on density and housing deregulation
- 🏫 A DARPA for education
- ☢️ Germany’s lost nuclear decade: A Quick Q&A with … energy researcher Jan Emblemsvåg
- ⚠ How disruptive would a Chinese invasion of Taiwan be?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #24
- 🌎 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on technological change and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
- 🆙 An Up Wing Trump agenda: what's realistic?
- 🗽 The America we have, the America we could have
- 🐝⚛ Bees 1, Mark Zuckerberg's nuclear plans 0
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #23
- 🚀 SpaceX is making a space Mayflower voyage possible
- ✨⏩ My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Robin Hanson on AI, innovation, and economic reality
- 💊💉 Will the anti-obesity wonder drugs work wonders for the US economy?
- ✨ Central planning in the Age of AI: A Quick Q&A with … economist and regulation expert Lynne Kiesling
- 😨 How the Crisis Decade set the stage for an Up Wing 21st Century
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #22
- ✨ How an AI technopanic begins
- 🚀 My chat (+transcript) with space journalist Eric Berger on SpaceX and America's New Space Age
- ⚛☢ Here's what can end the nuclear renaissance, according to America's biggest bank
- ⚡ What will power the future US economy?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #21
- ✨ Daron Acemoglu: too much faith in government, too little in markets (and AI)
- ⚛ Atomic Amazon: The American nuclear revival takes another step forward
- ✨ The impact of AI and jobs: A Quick Q&A with … Daniel Rock of the Wharton School
- ✨ The future of AI and the US economy, according to Goldman Sachs
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #20
- ✨🤖 Elon Musk's true economic vision was on display at 'We, Robot'
- 💥 My chat (+transcript) with economist Eli Dourado on creating a fantastic future
- 🌀 It's actually a huge failure that we can't control hurricanes
- ⚡✨🕸️ The computational power of complex societies: A Quick Q&A with … physicist and computer scientist David Wolpert
- ✨ What we know about AI and the economy ... so far, at least
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #19
- ⤵ Why populist economics is bad: industrial policy edition
- ⤵ Why populist economics is bad: trade protectionism edition
- 🚢 🤚 Some anti-progress lessons from the port workers strike
- ⚛ Why (lots) more nuclear power might make economic sense
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #18
- ✨ AI (but not supersmart AGI) and the world of 2030
- ☀️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Noah Smith on technological progress
- ✨🤖 The Age of AGI: the upsides and challenges of superintelligence
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #17
- ⚛ The return of Three Mile Island (and an Up Wing America?)
- 🌡👶 When climate anxiety leads to childlessness
- ✨ AI and business: A Quick Q&A with … Andrew McAfee, author of "The Geek Way"
- 🛑 Degrowth: a shrinking argument
- 🤔 History-minded Up Wingers: Ancient Rome versus Victorian Britain. Pick your fighter.
- 📖 My chat (+transcript) with Mentava founder Niels Hoven on accelerating kids’ education
- 🦄 Forget about Left-Right Wing. How about an Up Wing America?
- ⤴ The Harris economic agenda: How pro-progress Up Wing is it?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #15
- ✨ An AI bubble? Why I don't care
- ⚡ My chat (+transcript) with venture capitalist Katherine Boyle on 'American Dynamism'
- 🧠 Bring more smart people to America!
- ⤴ On the commerce-loving West: A Quick Q&A with … Samuel Gregg
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #14
- ↔ Cathedrals or computer chips: which way Western Man?
- 💥 America’s ‘exceptional’ post-pandemic economy
- 🔋✨ Energy and AI … A Quick Q&A with science writer Michael Puttré
- ✨👎 Xi Jinping an AI doomer? If only!
- ✨⚡ A thermodynamic miracle: Compute and energy are key to humanity's continued evolution
- ✨ Time for techno-optimism: My long read Q&A with venture capitalist Marc Andreessen (Friday Flashback)
- ⏩ Has America accelerated?
- ✈ 💥 Could supersonic air travel take flight (again)?
- 🏙🔎 America’s missing megalopolis mystery
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #12
- 🤖 The Age of AI and the 2024 (and 2028 ... and 2032) election
- ⚠ My chat (+transcript) with BCG economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak on dealing with macroeconomic risk
- 🙃 Keep America weird! (It’s good for innovation and growth.)
- 👶 The upside to population decline
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #11
- 💰🤖 UBI needs AGI to make sense
- 🤖🧠 My chat (+transcript) with Google DeepMind's Séb Krier on AGI and public policy
- 🌌 Here's what Up Wing science fiction can be at its best
- ✊ Why I'm not giving up on a New Roaring '20s
- 👁⏩ When humanity stopped looking backward, it started moving forward
- 🌡 The future of US climate change and clean energy policy
- 🏭 Why no Industrial Revolution in ancient Rome, Greece, or China?
- ⚛🧬 The importance of government R&D: A Quick Q&A with economist Andrew Fieldhouse
- ☀ Climate change won't destroy the global economy
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #9
- ☢ The Chernobyl Syndrome: Another example of just how deadly nuclear fear can be
- 📈 This was a good US GDP report!
- 🌐↔ A Quick Q&A on trade protectionism with ... economist Kimberly Clausing
- ⏩ We're slowly breaking through the wall of stagnation
- ⤵ My chat (+transcript) with investor Ruchir Sharma on where capitalist economies went wrong
- 🚀 Can JD Vance make MAGA more pro-progress (and Up Wing)?
- 🔮 We need more futurism in Washington
- ⚠ The risk of preemptively tackling AI risk
- ⚛ My chat (+transcript) with the US Energy Department's Mike Goff on powering the US with more nuclear energy
- ⤵️ 5 megaprojects that America didn’t build (but should have)
- 🎁 AI and technological 'eucatastrophe'
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #8
- 😟 A look at gloomy, dystopian Generation Z (Wayback Wednesday)
- 🌌 A Quick Q&A with ... lunar geologist Kevin Cannon on building and working in space
- 🤖🎢 Where are we in the AI 'hype cycle?'
- 🤖 My chat (+transcript) with Google economist Guy Ben-Ishai on seizing the historic AI moment
- ⤴ We need an Up Wing-themed presidential debate
- ⚡ America needs an Energy and Science Act
- 🤖 The future that AI can help build
- ⭐ Soviet Amerika? Nyet!
- 🤖 A Quick Q&A with ... Mark Jamison on a pro-market vision for AI/tech policy
- 🗽 Juneteenth and the productivity shock of 1865
- 💥 Debt burdens, tariffs, and Up Wing thinking
- 🤔 Who will write the story of the 21st century?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #7
- 🏙 My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Jason Barr on the skyscrapers of tomorrow
- ⤴ Up Wing ideas to boost America's productive capacity
- 🤖🎬 J.Lo's AI thriller, 'Atlas,' is an important Up Wing film. Really.
- 🚀 'Earthrise' and the end of the Space Age
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #6
- ⚛ Is Biden's nuclear dream just a fantasy?
- 🤖🌈 My chat (+transcript) with Nick Bostrom on life in an AI utopia
- 🤖📈📉 AI's economic potential: Goldman Sachs responds to Daron Acemoglu
- 🤖 A Quick Q&A with ... economist Michael Strain on AI
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #5
- 🤔 About Elon Musk becoming a Trump White House adviser ...
- 🤖 My chat (+transcript) with tech policy analyst Adam Thierer on regulating AI
- 🤖 Are we overestimating AI's potential economic oomph?
- 🆙 Countering 'neopopulism' with Up Wing techno-optimism
- 📈 Explaining the recent productivity gap between the US and Europe
- ☀🕕 Forget the Doomsday Clock. We need a Genesis Clock.
- 🌎 The economic lesson of earthquakes
- 🗽💨 America is outgrowing other rich countries, thanks to the ‘American Tailwind’
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #3
- 🧭 Congress's big AI report: Direction matters more than details
- 🌈 A Quick Q&A with … Maarten Boudry on whether 'climate doomers are for real'
- 🤖 If GPT-4o seems like ‘Her,’ it’s a welcome upgrade over ‘The Terminator’
- 🌡 Is the economic impact from climate change way worse than we think?
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #2
- 🏭 Is the CHIPS Act really working?
- 🤖 How should we regulate AI without strangling it?
- ⚠ Is America riskier than we think?
- ☢ 'Fallout' and the persistence of techno-optimism
- ⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #1
- 🚀 My chat (+transcript) with Charles Murray on Project Apollo
- 🔁 The negative feedback loop that could ‘doom’ AI
- ⚡🛑 AI and the energy constraint
- 🗽 A Quick Q&A on the state of America … with trend expert and demographer Joel Kotkin
- 😀 Good news: Washington has failed to undermine the AI Revolution. So far.
- ⤴⤵ Is Biden a pro-progress Up Winger? Is Trump?
- 🌋⚡ A Quick Q&A on ... advanced geothermal energy with Arnab Datta
- 🗳⤴ Politics and progress: a mini-manifesto
- 🦁 My chat (+transcript) with investment strategist Ed Yardeni on his optimism for a Roaring 2020s
- ✈ Boeing used to be a symbol of Up Wing America. No longer.
- ⏩ We can do it! How our decisions can accelerate economic growth
- ⚡ A Quick Q&A on permitting and the clean energy transition with ... James Coleman
- 🔮🤖🚫 'Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,' a quarter century later
- 🤖 🦅 How AI can fix America's ugly, broken politics
- ⚡⚛ My chat (+transcript) with Steve Obenschain of LaserFusionX on laser fusion
- ⚛ A Quick Q&A on nuclear regulation with ... energy policy analyst Michael Giberson
- 🤖👨🏭 The AI Revolution: Still no reason to fear a ‘jobpocalypse’
- 🔭🔬🧪 A Quick Q&A on federal R&D with ... Matt Hourihan of the Federation of American Scientists
- 👽 What the '3 Body Problem' teaches about stagnation
- 🤖🌊 How close is the transformational AI wave?
- ⏩ A Quick Q&A on the 'effective accelerationism' (e/acc) movement with ... Nadia Asparouhova
- ☢ My chat (+transcript) with Spencer Weart on the history of nuclear energy fear
- 🚀 Moore's Law meet Musk's Law: the underappreciated story of SpaceX and the stunning decline in launch costs
- ☀ A Quick Q&A on solar geoengineering with … Wake Smith and David Keith
- 🤖👶 Reversing the global fertility collapse: Tech progress might be the only answer
- 🤖 AI and the economy: scenarios for a world with artificial general intelligence
- 🤖⏭ Nvidia's surge hints at AI's transformative potential. But what's next?
- 🧪⚛🧬 Broken promises: CHIPS Act funding for science research falls short
- 🎦🌌 Dystopian Hollywood vs. a tech-optimist, Up Wing future
- ↩ Flashback Friday: A Quick Q&A on nuclear energy risk with ... economist Matthew Neidell
- 🌐 My chat (+transcript) with John Bailey on the potential for AI in education
- 🌍📈 The world is a less impoverished and more equal place than you think
- 🌎⏩ How fast can the global economy grow?
- 🌐 My chat (+transcript) with James Walker of microreactor startup NANO Nuclear Energy
- 🤔⤴ What's so conservative about conservative futurism?
- 🚀🌑 America finally returns to the Moon
- 💉💊🧬 From AI to Ozempic: How health innovation can strengthen the US economy
- 😃⤴ Is a future-optimist Vibe Shift happening?
- 🚀👨🚀 It's the 10th anniversary of one of the most Up Wing stories ever told
- ⏩🔬 Good news: We know how to accelerate the US economy
- 🤖👷♂️ Beyond disruption: AI, expertise, and the future of middle-class workers
- ⚛ Nuclear power: Faster, please! But also cheaper, please!
- 🌐 My chat (+transcript) with defense policy analyst Todd Harrison on the US Space Force
- 💥💥 Two takes on America’s emerging (maybe) productivity boom
- 👴👵🤖 Humanity’s Great Fight for the Future: Demographics vs. AI
- 🤖⚡ Does AI use too much energy? A Quick Q&A with … policy analyst James Broughel
- ⤴↗📈 Has the Great Upshift arrived?
- 🍼 Fewer and Faster: Can we stop the global fertility collapse?
- 🍼 Peak Human: What happens when global population soon starts falling (part two)
- 🍼 Fewer and faster: Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing
- 📉⤵ A Quick Q&A on the economics of 'degrowth' ... with economist Brian Albrecht
- 🔥 How to ignite a geothermal energy revolution
- 🤔 Is Sam Altman is being ... tricksy?
- 💉💊 A Quick Q&A on weight-loss drugs ... with health economist Ben Ippolito
- 🚀⤴ 'For All Mankind' is still the pro-progress, Up Wing show Hollywood and America needs
- 🤖📈 How financial markets could predict the arrival of artificial general intelligence
- 🤖 An economic super-boom needs humanoid robots, not just human-level AI
- 🐘🔙🏘 The wrongheaded 'conservative' retreat from housing reform
- 🚀 Billionaires dreaming of a sci-fi future is a good thing
- 💡 My Quick Q&A with … data scientist Hannah Ritchie on building a sustainable planet
- ⤵ The China (Degrowth) Syndrome
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- 🤖⤴ The Age of AI and the Great Upshift: 2024 hopes
- 🌐 How an Up Wing change in culture created the modern world
- 😲🎁 The American Surprise that changed everything
- 🃏 AI solves famous math problem. Bigger breakthroughs to come?
- ⚛ My chat (+transcript) with TAE Technologies CEO Michl Binderbauer on the future of fusion
- 🤖⤴️ AI and extreme economic outcomes
- 💡 A Quick Q&A … with AI researcher Melanie Mitchell
- 😲 The Las Vegas Sphere is pretty cool. Important, too.
- 💡 A Quick Q&A with … economist Michael Strain on the economic future of AI
- 🐙 How fear of the 'Mega-machine' helped end America's postwar economic Golden Age (repost)
- 🤖📈 America's AI Boom: an update
- 🤖 A Quick Q&A with … AI policy analyst Jennifer Huddleston
- 👎 Mistelling the story of the American Dream
- ⤴ Inequality vs. pro-progress Up Wing economics
- 🌐 My chat (+transcript) with Andrew McAfee on how to upgrade any company like a geek
- ⏸ What the printing press and stagnation in the Islamic world teach about AI
- ☀👨👩👧👦 Climate change and kids
- 🌻 Economic growth and the environment don't have to be enemies
- 🤖 Sam Altman and OpenAI: a fork in the road of human destiny?
- 🔀 What's next for US productivity growth?
- 🌅🕕 Forget the Doomsday Clock. We need a Genesis Clock.
- 🌌 A few quick questions for ... economist Ian Lange on the economics of space mining
- ⚛ Technological failure and the nuclear renaissance
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #68
- 💥 How a New Roaring '20s could be like ... the Booming 1990s. Still.
- 😎 My long read Q&A with Marc Andreessen on the importance of techno-optimism
- 🌞 My chat with Marc Andreessen on the need for techno-optimism
- 🤔🤖 How an economist thinks about the AI dilemma: growth vs. existential risk
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #67
- 🤖 Elon Musk: 'There will come a point where no job is needed. AI will be able to do everything.'
- 🤖🎬 Oh, no: Biden is learning about AI from movies. We're in deep trouble.
- 🤖 What's really at stake if we get AI regulation wrong
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #66
- 🏡 Colonialism isn't why Israel is rich and it's neighbors aren't
- 🌐 My chat (+transcript) with Johan Norberg on the case for capitalism — and the myth of Swedish socialism
- 💭 My thoughts ... on Noah Smith's and Matt Yglesias' thoughts on Marc Andreessen's 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto'
- ⤴ Critics of Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto fail basic economics
- ☀ The sunny potential of space-based solar power
- 🚀 Space, the final economic frontier (and maybe a cure for 'secular stagnation')
- 🚀 'Over the long term, you cannot have a society that views technological progress as making life worse'
- 🤖 'The Creator' isn't the pro-progress, Up Wing film about AI that we need
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #65
- 👪 Parenting as pro-progress, Up Wing policy
- ⤴⏩ Some surprising Up Wing and e/acc films
- 💵 Fiscalism and futurism
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #64
- 🙏 We all should hope the US economy can avoid recession. Really.
- 🚀 5 Quick Questions for ... James Pethokoukis (me!) on his new book, 'The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised'
- 🤔 American capitalism and 'deaths of despair,' again
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #63
- 🏭 Do you want to build a factory?
- 🌎 My chat (+transcript) with political scientist Francis Fukuyama on technological change and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
- ☀ The most important pro-progress event of the year (so far) was a tech failure. But that's OK.
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for … policy analyst Alex Trembath on the notion of 'Earth overshoot'
- ⤴ Could AI really generate explosive economic growth?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #62
- 👩🏫 America needs better, smarter teachers. GenAI can help.
- 🌎 6 Down Wing myths about the American economy and the world
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for … policy analyst Brink Lindsey on techno-optimistic socialism — and the new pro-abundance left
- ↕ How zero-sum thinking undermines American progress
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #61
- 🤖 How will AI help us, exactly?
- 🌎 My chat (+transcript) with climate scientist Zeke Hausfather
- 🚀 NASA’s Space Launch System rocket program simply makes no sense
- 🤖 The big questions about AI have nothing to do with killer machines
- 🛢 Was the Shale Revolution a missed opportunity?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #60
- ⚕ Weight-loss drugs seem like another bit of sci-fi becoming fact
- 🎈 Are we experiencing an AI bubble?
- ☀ Solarpunk futurism seems optimistic and whimsical. But not really.
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for … cultural critic Christine Rosen on AI and American society
- 📈 What is the outlook for long-term US economic growth?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #59
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #35
- 🤚 Yes, the pandemic-era school closures were a disaster
- 📈 Can AI prevent a US recession?
- 🗺 Plan vs. no plan: My chat with economist Michael Strain on when industrial policy makes sense and when it doesn’t
- 🍊 California shows decline and degrowth is a choice, not destiny
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #58
- ☀ C'mon, Republicans, this isn't a 'dark moment' for an America 'in decline'
- ⏩ Let's make self-driving cars happen faster!
- 🐭 A (degrowth) world without Disneyland
- 💥 Four shocking truths about the American economy! (Well, shocking to some.)
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #57
- 😨 We fear AI. That's a problem.
- Transcript: My Q&A with economist Pete Boettke on why AI can’t plan the economy
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #34
- 🚘 Beyond the hype: Self-driving cars shifting into high(er) gear
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #56
- 🤖 AI has risks. So does regulating it.
- 🚅 Super superconductors aren't needed for high-speed rail in America
- ☹ Explaining irrational tech pessimism
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #55
- ↕ Is good news on the US economy really bad news? Productivity numbers will decide.
- 🌊 Tech tsunami: AI, quantum computing, and (🤞) superconductors
- 🤖 Aye, robot!
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #54
- ⚛ Are we ready for another Atomic Age?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #33
- 💥 Science is popping! Now it's superconductors! I mean, maybe!
- 😟 A look at gloomy, dystopian Generation Z
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #53
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #32
- 🤖 How do we know if the AI Revolution is real?
- 🌎 Fear not the Anthropocene Epoch!
- 🔄 Learning from Europe's Doom Loop of Decline
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #52
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #31
- 📈 What would be the impact of an AI boom on interest rates and inflation?
- ⚛ How small nuclear reactors fit into my pro-progress Up Wing vision
- 🏦 How a Wall Street megabank is thinking about AI
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #51
- 🦉 Is artificial 'super' intelligence coming soon?
- 💥 Will AI cause 'explosive' economic growth?
- 🤖 5 fascinating questions — and answers — about AI
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #50
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #30
- 🤖 From Hollywood studios to West Coast ports, automation fears are sweeping through the US economy
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for ... ‘uber-geographer’ Joel Kotkin about the future of American cities
- 🧬 People are freaking out about AI. Will we do any better with the (AI-powered) Biotech Revolution?
- Why all your biggest fears about AI ... might be wrong
- 📽 Don't fear AI's (not-so) 'Secret Invasion' into Hollywood animation
- 🔁 America: Everything, everywhere, all at once
- ⚡ Does AI use too much energy? Should we care?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #49
- ⤴ My chat with machine-learning scientist (and AI optimist) Bojan Tunguz of Nvidia
- 🤖 Brace yourself: The AI jobs panic is about to explode
- 💣 Environmentalism and the Unabomber
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #48
- 🌎 The case against the case against Marc Andreessen's 'Why AI Will Save the World' essay
- ⛔ Why AI can't replace market capitalism
- 🎭 Jobs are booming. Productivity growth isn't. What's up with that?
- 🛣 Can we steer technological change? Do we need to?
- ⚠ My Statement on AI Risk
- 💻 What clunky computers from old sci-fi can teach us about economic decision-making today
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #47
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #29
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The FAQ
- 🤖 Analyzing AGI: What would the world of artificial general intelligence look like?
- ⤵ Dystopian 'Silo' gives a glimpse of a degrowth world
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #46
- 📈 You say 'budget deficit,' I say 'productivity deficit'
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #28
- 🌡 The 3°C Scenario: What's the economic impact of severe global warming?
- 🙂 Is America really a techno-optimist country?
- ↗ The case for an AI-driven productivity boom
- ⚛ Is nuclear fusion going to arrive way sooner than expected?
- 📈 What markets are telling us about ChatGPT as a general purpose technology
- ↩ Give me a break: American life wasn't better 50 years ago
- ⚔ The FTC's Lina Khan vs. GenAI
- 💣 The Oppenheimer Fallacy: Don't treat AI like the A-Bomb
- 🖖 Friday Flashback: My conversation with Ryan Britt on the cultural importance of 'Star Trek'
- ↘ Will the US be weaker in 2050 than today?
- ⤴ The economic promise of ChatGPT and GenAI as a general purpose technology
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #45
- 💥 Is America ready for another rocket disaster?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #27
- 🤖 Do we need a World Congress to govern AI?
- 🚀 Looking forward: SpaceX and Starship provide an aspirational opportunity for America
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #44
- ↗ America is great, but it can be better
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #26
- 🤖 What self-driving cars should teach us about generative AI
- ☀'Extrapolations' imagines a dystopian climate future leading to nowhere. Because humans suck.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #25
- 🤖 AI is here. But AGI is not. And that's OK (for now)
- 🦋 As AI-machine learning emerges, Americans' doubts grow
- 🌎 Why we should cheer that Earth's population just passed 8 billion
- 🤖 No to the AI Pause
- 🤖 Why Goldman Sachs thinks generative AI could have a huge impact on economic growth and productivity
- ✋ The risk of slowing down AI progress
- 🤖 Yep, ChatGPT and generative AI are going to have a big impact on jobs
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #43
- 💥 The Long Boom that wasn't — and what we can learn
- 🤖 If AI can help us make better decisions, that's a gamechanger.
- 💣 Blowing up the American tech sector would be bad
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #42
- ↗️ 5 Quick Questions for … economist Kevin James on ideas and economic growth
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #24
- 🤖 The Age of AI vs. the Age of Populism
- 🏙 Taking a serious (first) look at Donald Trump's 'Future Cities' idea
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #41
- 🤖 From stagnation to acceleration: Can AI chatbots really boost worker productivity?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #23
- ⤴ What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and exponential economic growth?
- 🤖 ChatGPT: The rise of generative AI and (again) the rise of fears about technological unemployment
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #40
- 💥 Would America's 20th Century postwar boom been stronger without, you know, the war?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #22
- ⤴ In defense of 'cornucopianism' and a more populous planet
- 🤖 ChatGPT and technological surprise: China edition
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #39
- 🎰 The techno-optimist Up Wing lesson that William Gibson's 'The Peripheral' inadvertently teaches
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #21
- 🌋 Limitless energy, the Yellowstone supervolcano, and the Elon Musk Effect
- 💢 The pushback against 'supply-side progressivism' is finally happening
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #38
- 💥 Tyler Cowen on the state of the Great Stagnation, pro-progress policy, metascience, and more!
- 🤔 Imagine an America with steep billionaire taxes — and without Amazon, Pixar, SpaceX, and Tesla (essay repost)
- 🎲 Recession odds vs. the chances of a New Roaring '20s
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #37
- 🧬 The breakthroughs keep on coming. Now it's human longevity.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #20
- ⤴ Let's add AP Progress to the high school curriculum
- ⚡ The dynamo, the computer, and ChatGPT: Explaining today's productivity paradox
- 🤖 Does ChatGPT mean the Technological Singularity is near? How would we know?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #19
- 🚅 Airships, hyperloops, and intercity rocket travel
- 🤖 AI can generate essays, pictures, and, it turns out, huge healthcare savings
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #35
- 🧪 The latest explanation for slow tech progress: science is broken
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #18
- 🌟 So aggravating: Gloomy '60 Minutes' downplays the chances of a nuclear-fusion economy. Of course, it did.
- 🤖 The story of MLK and 1960s concerns about automation
- 🍌 ChatGPT, cryptocurrencies, and Bananarama
- 📈 The state of American entrepreneurship: everything you should know
- 😱 Who taught us to fear Dystopia? Who taught us we didn't deserve Utopia?
- ⛓ Some brief thoughts on banning noncompete agreements
- 🌻 Paul Ehrlich interview on '60 Minutes' shows the need to finally defeat degrowth environmentalism
- ☹ (Un)Happy 50th anniversary of the Great Stagnation! But there's hope!
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- 🚀 Billionaires, space, and the Blade Runner Fallacy
- Flashback: The Smithsonian’s dreary 'Futures' exhibition is stuck in the eco-pessimist 1970s
- 🆙 2022 gave us many reasons to be encouraged about our future
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #17
- 🌟 Nuclear fusion: the state of play among the startup firms
- 🌊 Are we about to see a wave of energy innovation? (Let's hope so.)
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #16
- 🚀 Was Ronald Reagan anti-progress? (Spoiler: He was not.)
- 🌟 Star Power: What the stunning nuclear-fusion breakthrough really means
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #15
- 2076 or Bust: What will the US and world look like on America's Tricentennial?
- 🤖 Machine language: Will ChatGPT have a job market impact?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #14
- 🐙 How fear of the 'Mega-Machine' helped end America's postwar economic Golden Age
- 🤖 Will the Next Big Thing be (finally) humanoid robots?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #13
- 🤖 Why AI won't take your job. (Maybe.)
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #34
- 👶 The non-insane argument for America having more babies
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #12
- 🏫 Why isn't the big plunge in student test scores a national emergency?
- ⤴ America can grow faster than China. Let's make it happen!
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #33
- ♾ Meta/Facebook and the state of American competitive capitalism
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #11
- ⚔ Are China and America destined for war? Trade vs. the Thucydides Trap
- ⚡ Why the 21st Century might be the Indian Century (but could still be another American Century)
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #32
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #10
- 💥 Here's more evidence AI is having a big impact on our world. But, you know, faster, please!
- 🌌 William Shatner's gloomy viral comments about space were ... unhelpful
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #31
- 🚗 Aargh! Self-driving cars seem stuck in the slow lane.
- ☢ How close are we to nuclear war?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #9
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #30
- 💥 You say 'trickle-down economics,' I say 'net positive spillovers from cultivating upper-tail human capital'
- ⤴ We don't need exponential growth for a fantastic future
- ⚔ How culture wars undermine America's future
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #29
- ⤵ The absurd attacks on Joe Manchin's permitting bill
- ☀ Imagining a better future is easy if you try. But you have to try.
- 🚀 The US wants to build a fleet of space stations. What will we do with them?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #28
- 🌾 Will the eco-pessimists miss another Green Revolution?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #8
- 🐲 Dragon fire and steam engines: Why wasn't there an Industrial Revolution in Westeros?
- 🧠 5 Quick Questions for ... economist Carl Benedikt Frey on the future of remote collaboration, productivity growth, and more
- 🔃 Did slavery make the West rich?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #27
- ⚛ Don't take the emerging Nuclear Renaissance for granted
- 🌈 How to build a future of clean energy abundance
- ◀ Republican reversal: The worst economic idea from what used to be the 'party of ideas'
- ⚛ What's next for the emerging Nuclear Renaissance?
- 👋 "Hello, I must be going." Another look at the pandemic-era productivity boom — then bust.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #27
- ⚡ The one where I offer numerous insights and opinions
- 🎥 Future Schlock: Hollywood's addiction to dystopia is really bad for us
- 🤔 The flying cars we never got: Are we wrong about what caused the Great Stagnation?
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for ... physicist César Hidalgo on economic complexity
- 🚀 NASA scrubs Artemis I launch today. Economics will scrub the rocket tomorrow.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #26
- 💥 What the 'Bison Shock' of the 1800s can teach us about economic growth today
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #7
- 👁 Will the Great (Economic) Awakening lead to a Great Re-Acceleration?
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for ... technology reporter Timothy B. Lee on self-driving cars, flying taxis, and more
- 🧬⚛ What mRNA vaccines and nuclear fusion teach us about America's innovation system
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #25
- ⤴ Faster, Please! — The FAQ
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #6
- ⤴ What's the potential for India's economic acceleration?
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for … economist Matt Clancy on how to accelerate scientific discovery
- 😀 Can a conservative be a future-optimist?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #24
- ✈ The coming boom in supersonic passenger flight. Finally. We hope.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #5
- 🙃 The strange plunge in US productivity growth, explained
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for … economist Anton Korinek on AI and the end of the Age of (Human) Labor
- 🔃 Has the Biden economic agenda been Up Wing or Down Wing?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #23
- ☢️ Can the global nuclear renaissance survive a big accident?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #4
- 🧗♂️ 'Friending bias' as the enemy of upward mobility
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for … MIT research scientist Tamay Besiroglu on the huge economic potential of AI
- ⤴ The legacy of 'The Jetsons' is about a lot more than dreams of flying cars
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #22
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for ... Stuart Buck on generating better federal science research
- 📉 We're thinking too much about the wrong 'recession'
- 🔮 The man who designed a tomorrow that never was. (At least not yet.)
- 💡 5 Quick Questions for … economist Branko Milanovic on the Russian economy, global capitalism, and more
- 🌈 America's Great Environmental Overcorrection
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #21
- 🌞 What might go right?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #3
- ☀ Here's the speech Joe Biden should give on the climate 'emergency'
- ☹ The pandemic-era productivity boom that wasn't
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #20
- 🧪 The US should dramatically ramp-up R&D. And it might not.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #2
- 🌌 "My God, it's full of stars!"
- ⏳ What happens when you warn of civilizational collapse, but civilization doesn't collapse?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #19
- 💥 The strong June jobs report doesn't end the risk of an impending recession. And that's OK.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #1
- ☄ Is Washington getting more serious about existential risk?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #18
- ☀ Love it or hate it, the Supreme Court's EPA ruling presents an opportunity for climate and energy progress
- 🦄 40 years later, 'Blade Runner's' dystopian economics still make zero sense
- 🤖 The case against mass technological unemployment. (And what happens if I’m wrong.)
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #17
- 🌙 Why you might never see a Moon colony
- 📉 Here's what the (likely) upcoming US recession will look like (probably)
- 📉 What 'Shrek' has to do with Moore's Law and the US growth downshift
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #16
- 📉 Why recessions are bad
- 🚀 The 5 most future-optimistic sci-fi shows on television
- 🤖 What if Google really did just invent human-level AI?
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #15
- ⤴ From Web3 to the space economy, we should avoid knee-jerk skepticism about emerging tech
- 🌐 The new book 'Streets of Gold' shatters myths as it makes the case for a nation of immigrants
- 🚀 What we should learn about Elon Musk and SpaceX from the new documentary 'Return to Space'
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #14
- ☀ Why socialist 'solarpunk' provides a poor vision of the future
- ⤴ Imagine a US political party built around faster economic growth and technological progress
- 😲 What the economist who identified the 'China Trade Shock' says about a possible AI Shock
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #13
- 🌐 The amazing success of 'Asianomics' in America — and what we should learn from it
- 👽 Why Congress' big UFO hearing made me more positive about faster human progress
- ⚡ Hey, America, let's not repeat our 1970s energy mistake
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #12
- 🌟 Tyler Cowen speaks! My short/sharp chat with the economist about innovation, China, talent, and more
- 🔥 The prospects for geothermal energy are heating up
- 💥 What we can learn about economic growth from a crashed Bugatti
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #11
- 🔙 Why we retreat from progress
- 🚀 America is starting a New Space Age. And it's a problem that many Americans don't know about it.
- 👎 No surprise: We're not going to remedy massive education loss from the pandemic. Sorry, kids!
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #10
- ⚡ What if America had cheap, clean, unlimited energy?
- ⚾ What 'Moneyball' got wrong: Pro baseball scouts can teach us a lot about automation and technological unemployment
- 🐭 The story of Disney's 'Tomorrowland Problem' and America's Long Stagnation
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #9
- 🤨 Blech, we’re halfway to a recession. But a deeper dive finds some good, pro-progress news in those Q1 GDP numbers.
- 🤯 3 reasons why an Elon Musk-run Twitter might surprise both Left and Right
- 😤 Progress is hard. And a new study suggests it might be even harder than we think.
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #8
- 🦸♂️ Venture capital is one of America's most important economic superpowers. Let's not undermine it.
- 🚀 Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire. And that's OK.
- 🌈 5 reasons why I still believe in my New Roaring '20s thesis
- 🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #7
- 📱 Even if Elon Musk can fix Twitter, he shouldn't buy Twitter
- 🌧 Our culture is creating a generation of doomsters and gloomsters
- 🏙 Two entrepreneurs want to build a futuristic city-cryptostate in Silicon Valley. Here's why the idea isn't totally ridiculous.
- 🚀 Faster, Please!: Week in Review+ #6
- 🎨 DALL-E: Did picture-generating AI just make artists obsolete?
- ⤴ Is Elon Musk left, right ... or something else?
- 🌐 Globalization is dead. Long live globalization.
- 🚀 Faster, Please!: Week in Review+ #5
- 🎓 Why MIT was smart to again require SAT and ACT scores
- ☀ Why my model for optimistic, techno-capitalist thinking is ... a famous nuclear strategist
- 🧐 Imagine an America with steep billionaire taxes — and without Amazon, Pixar, SpaceX, and Tesla
- 🚀 Faster, Please!: Week in Review+ #4
- 🌐 How Russia’s 'brain drain' could be a 'brain gain' for the world (especially America 🤞)
- ⤴ Forget about Left Wing and Right Wing. How about an Up Wing America?
- 💥 AI is the invention of a new method of invention — and its potential is more amazing than you realize
- 🚀 Faster, Please!: Week in Review+ #3
- ⚡ Is AI finally ready to supercharge the US economy?
- 🤔 Vladimir Putin (and some US conservatives) call America 'decadent.' Really?
- 🎲 Boomflation, stagflation, or … recession — what are the odds?
- 🚀 Faster, Please!: Week in Review+ #2
- 😞 A country without a positive vision of the future has no future. Just look at Russia.
- 🌎 'The Limits to Growth' at 50: Still saving the Earth at the expense of humanity
- 🚀 Faster, Please!: Week in Review+ #1
- 💥 Future Shock as Facebook Shock: Is social media driving us crazy?
- 😑 Is this really America's age of 'anti-ambition' and decadence?
- ⏰ Russia Invades Ukraine: Will a Warring ‘20s Prevent a New Roaring ‘20s?
- ⚡ AI? CRISPR? Fusion? Can we figure out if the Next Big Thing is already here?
- 🎁 The War on Gifted Education
- 🚀 Plant more trees or go to Mars?
- 💢 The productivity-pay 'gap': a pernicious economic myth
- 😨 What to do about 'climate anxiety,' America's new dystopian disease
- ⏰ When will the Next Big Thing arrive?
- 📈 Yes, the US can have a 3% growth economy again
- ⚠️ Justice Stephen Breyer, singer Neil Young, and the 'Zero Risk Society'
- 🤖 The return of automation anxiety
- 💣 Doomsday economics: What if someone explodes a nuclear bomb?
- 👶 China's baby bust is a huge opportunity for America
- 🔥 I’m worried about inflation. And it has nothing to do with politics or Joe Biden.
- 🤔 What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2,000 years ago rather than 200? (And why didn't it?)
- 🔙 The Smithsonian’s dreary 'Futures' exhibition is stuck in the eco-pessimist 1970s
- ⚛ Why France has a nuclear-powered economy — and America doesn't
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- 🎬 Why 2022 won't be anything like the 2022 of 'Soylent Green'
- ☄ 'Don’t Look Up' suffers from a misguided dystopian gloom
- 🌎 The frustrating story behind 'Earthrise,' one of the most famous photos ever
- 💥 The shocking return of zombie economics in 2021
- 👽 Washington is taking UFOs more seriously. Should Wall Street?
- 🌟 I was interviewed for Time’s Elon Musk ‘Person of the Year’ issue. Here’s what I said.
- 🌌 Why 'The Expanse' qualifies as optimistic science-fiction
- 🔮 Life in 2050, as seen by 'deep tech' venture capitalists
- 🚀 How the Fed can help America colonize Mars
- 🛰 Why a SpaceX bankruptcy would hurt the global poor
- 🚀 America took one small step toward saving humanity this week
- 💊 Bad innovation: the real economic story behind America’s opioid epidemic
- 🚀 What are the politics of progress?
- 📉 Why America’s biggest bank is forecasting a bleak post-COVID economy (Is it wrong?)
- ⏰ America’s inflation alarm should awaken it from a bad dream
- 👁 Can authoritarian China really out-tech America?
- 🪐 Dune, The Expanse, Foundation: Is TV's Golden Age giving us the optimistic sci-fi we need?
- When pokey Americans return to work, will there be jobs waiting?
- The myth of the extinct single-income American family
- Why Tesla's $1 trillion valuation says something good about the US economy
- Technological stagnation and the Zero-Risk Society
- We have a housing shortage. Time for pro-growth housing policy
- Prince William’s thoughtless case against the ‘billionaire space race’
- Is a new Atomic Age finally here?
- President Biden is making a big environmental mistake
- Why the Billionaire Space Race is no joke
- What went wrong in 1973? (And what didn’t go wrong?)
- How to expand admissions at America’s top colleges
- A New Roaring Twenties would make America better, as well as richer
- Ezra Klein and the ‘supply-side economics’ of Joe Biden
- Explaining the slow progress of US high-speed rail
- How to get the AI-powered US economy that we want
- Why you can enjoy Star Trek, even with its (kind of) communist economics
- An energy revolution: better late than never
- What Hurricane Ida just taught us about how the US economy really works
- They promised we could control hurricanes, but instead we got Twitter
- Why optimistic science fiction is still possible and really important
- Tesla Bots vs. Universal Basic Income: Which is Elon Musk overhyping more?
- Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Will star power fuel a Roaring Twenty-First Century economy?
- New UN climate report: Save us, tech progress!
- Is slow population growth the ultimate obstacle to tech progress?
- China's techlash explained (and lessons for America); the jobs 'robopocalypse' has been canceled; work-from-home won't jumpstart the Heartland; Futurama 1964; and more ...
- American population stagnation; building a pro-progress culture; Roaring or Boring Twenties, revisited; a chat with sci-fi author Ramez Naam; and more . . .
- A stunning week in science and tech; Roaring Twenties or Boring Twenties; telemedicine is here to stay; the story of human progress through nails; and much more ...
- Jeff Bezos blasts off; climate and collapse; good news on productivity growth; and much more ...
- Is Marc Andreessen right that tech just saved the world?; the degrowth delusion; a flashback to Logan's Run; the case against space; and more ...
- Tech progress and Alzheimer's; the economics of the Green Revolution; flying cars and regulators; geoengineering; and more ...
- Biden and the New Roaring '20s; supersonic airliners; the 21st century slowdown; Musk, Grimes and AI; bullet trains; and more ...
- Slow growth = bad politics; blue jeans vs. the environment; making the world smarter; Washington's R&D troubles; and more ...
- We need more clean energy to maximize human potential, not just for bitcoin
- How America’s baby bust hurts economic growth
- Joe Biden's wild prediction about the future
- Lost Future: What if America had avoided the Great Stagnation?
- Tyler Cowen on the end of the Great Stagnation
- America's possible post-pandemic boom; the optimistic chart pessimists love to hate; culture war vs. housing reform; and more ...
- Elon Musk vs. Bernie Sanders about space; geoengineering isn’t just for mad scientists; R&D on the rise; and more ...
- America, China, and industrial policy; AI and UBI; The Chart of the Future, and more ...
- Elon Musk vs. Greta Thunberg; asteroid mining; the GDP Blip; AI and jobs; the Antikythera Mechanism, and more ...
- Why building hyperloops is hard; AI as a super RA; how bubbles drive tech progress; curing disease by curing aging, and more ...
- 'For all Mankind;' the Biden boom; moonbase alpha; CRISPR, our nuclear future, and more ...