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2026 5

  1. Can a Million AI Agents Create Superintelligence
  2. Can AI self-improvement overcome diminishing returns?
  3. Two AI Futures to Choose From
  4. Two Hours of AI Optimism - Grounded in Reality
  5. Common AI Narratives are Wrong (Video and Part 1)

2020 1

  1. Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)

2019 1

  1. The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be the Most Disruptive Yet

2018 3

  1. Clean Technology is Disrupting Fossil Fuels Faster Than Ever
  2. Yes, Blockchain Can Help Us Solve Climate Change – Why I Joined Nori
  3. Solar doesn’t need a “breakthrough”. It’s a breakthrough on it’s own.

2017 5

  1. Clean Energy Disruption – Video from South Africa
  2. Don’t Let the Terrorists Win – White Supremacy Edition
  3. Why Trump Won’t be Impeached Any Time Soon
  4. Healthcare Improvements Republicans Could Make
  5. Our Future Cyborg Brains: My Keynote at XTech 2017

2016 12

  1. To Fight Climate Change in the Trump Era, Focus on the States
  2. Trump Isn’t Hitler. The US isn’t 1930s Germany
  3. We Can Push For Progress at the State Level
  4. New Record Low Solar Price in Abu Dhabi – Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected
  5. Wind Power Blowing More Reliably Than Ever
  6. How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
  7. APEX Wins the Philip K. Dick Award!
  8. Why I’m Starting the First AngelList Cleantech Syndicate
  9. My Carbon Price Presentation to the Washington Legislature
  10. Renewables are Disruptive to Fossil Fuels
  11. Win Copies of All Six Philip K. Dick Award Finalists
  12. How Far Can Renewables Go? Pretty Darn Far

2015 21

  1. How to Think About the Paris Climate Deal
  2. Did the One Child Policy Matter? Probably Not.
  3. How Cheap Can Energy Storage Get? Pretty Darn Cheap
  4. Hunger is at an all-time low. We can drive it even lower.
  5. How Steady Can Wind Power Blow?
  6. How Cheap Can Solar Get? Very Cheap Indeed
  7. New Solar Capacity Factor in the US is Now ~30%
  8. Citizens Led on Gay Marriage and Pot. We Can on Climate Change Too.
  9. Solar Cost Less than Half of What EIA Projected
  10. Solar: The First 1% Was the Hardest
  11. What’s the EROI of Solar?
  12. The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain
  13. The Singularity is Further Than it Appears
  14. Tesla Battery Economics: On the Path to Disruption
  15. Why I’m Wearing an Eye Patch
  16. China Isn’t the Reason Solar is Cheap. Innovation Is.
  17. Solar + Wind, More Than the Sum of Their Parts
  18. The Prime Minister of Singapore is a Coder
  19. Why Energy Storage is About to Get Big – and Cheap
  20. How Much Land Would it Take to Power the US via Solar?
  21. A Simple Suggestion for the Hugo Awards

2014 24

  1. 2014 Was a Good Year: Better Than You Remember
  2. The Patents Argument Against GMOs Just Ended With the First Off-Patent GMO
  3. Today I Spoke at the Allen Institute for Brain Science
  4. Solar and Wind Plunging Below Fossil Fuel Prices
  5. The Learning Curve for Energy Storage
  6. The Renewable Energy Revolution
  7. Video: Brain Implants to Link and Augment Human Minds (The Science of Nexus)
  8. The Best Books Threaten the Powerful – My Video Message on Banned Books Week
  9. Actually: You ARE the Customer, Not the Product
  10. The Campbell Award – and Why I’m Optimistic About the Future of SF
  11. Nexus is a Finalist for the Endeavour Award!
  12. Nexus and Cory Doctorow’s Homeland Tie for the Prometheus Award
  13. Political Polarization: Seek First to Understand
  14. Can We Beat the Surveillance State? My Keynote at CFP 2014
  15. Reducing Carbon Emissions Will Be Cheaper Than Expected – It Always Is
  16. Nominated for the Campbell, Clarke, Prometheus, and Kitschie!
  17. Is the US an Oligarchy? Not So Fast.
  18. Carbon Prices Drive Clean Energy Innovation
  19. What’s Limiting the Impact of GMOs on Global Food Security?
  20. Publishing – We’re All On the Same Side
  21. President’s Proposed NSA Reforms are Insufficient
  22. TEDx Talk: Linking Human Minds
  23. The Shrinking Dominance of the Big Dogs in Tech
  24. Nexus and Crux: A Double Kindle Daily Deal

2013 23

  1. Nexus on Sale for $2.99 on Kindle – One of NPR’s Best Books of 2013
  2. Arctic Sea Ice: Less in November 2013 than Summers Before 2006
  3. Nexus: One of NPR’s Best Books of 2013!
  4. Decoupling Growth From Energy and Carbon
  5. The Ozone Layer Success Story
  6. Less Water, Less Oil
  7. Do We Eat Oil? Farms Are More Energy Efficient Than Ever
  8. Can We Feed the World?
  9. Solar Power Prices Dropping Faster Than Ever
  10. The Sunlight is Where the Energy Poverty Is
  11. Income, Energy Use, and Life Expectancy
  12. Life Satisfaction and Income
  13. Energy Storage Gets Exponentially Cheaper Too
  14. Video: Wiring the Brain: The Real Science of Nexus
  15. SuperBugs kill 23,000, sicken 2 million, and cost at least $1 billion in the US each year
  16. MIT: Air pollution Causes 200,000 Early Deaths per Year in the US
  17. Videos of My Talks & Media Appearances
  18. Pieces I’ve Written Around the Web
  19. US Teen Birth Rate Hits All Time Low
  20. PRISM Overstated, NSA Surveillance Still Problematic
  21. The Race to Save The Planet
  22. The Evidence on GMO Safety
  23. FREE Copy of Nexus for Worldcon Attendees

2012 14

  1. Awesome Press for NEXUS – Here’s a Roundup
  2. Nexus is Here!
  3. Nexus: T Minus 7 Days
  4. Announcing The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
  5. China’s Tipping Point on Environment?
  6. Pricing Nature to Save the Planet
  7. Is Automation the Handmaiden of Inequality?
  8. One gene helped human brains become complex
  9. China now consumes twice as much meat as the United States
  10. Nano-devices that cross blood-brain barrier
  11. Combining Current Tech Could Make Solar Cheaper than Coal
  12. Innovation as the Infinite Resource: My Talk at Chicago Ideas Week
  13. No Big Fukushima Health Impact Seen, UN Official Says: Scientific American
  14. Japans population to drop by 1 million each year

2011 31

  1. Duke Researchers Send Touch Sensations into the Brain
  2. Reconstruction from brain activity – YouTube
  3. Carbon Nanotubes Could Replace Rare Earth Indium in Solar Cells
  4. Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum
  5. Memory Prosthetics – Some Progress
  6. 30,000 Human Genomes to be Sequenced in 2011 – Exponential Growth
  7. A roadmap for growing prosperity while saving the planet
  8. Cheap Plastic Made from Sugarcane
  9. Sheer Numbers Gave Early Humans Edge Over Neanderthals
  10. Iron-rich dust fuelled 4 million years of ice ages
  11. My WFS2011 Talk: The Infinite Resource: Growing Prosperity While Reducing Impact on the Earth
  12. World Bank: Scrap biofuel subsidies to curb food costs
  13. Anti-Ghrelin Vaccine to Fight Obesity
  14. BMW Powered Twin-Rotor Hoverbike
  15. Farmers Were Genetic Breeders 10,000 Years Ago
  16. Violence Among Primates (including Bonobos)
  17. Solar Cheaper than Coal in 3-5 Years? GE and First Solar Think So
  18. Genetically Tweaked Microbes on 0.6% of Earth’s Land Could Replace Oil
  19. Can We Capture All the World’s Carbon?
  20. Special report: Rescuing nuclear power – New Scientist
  21. More Efficient Aircraft Designs
  22. Key Trends of the Next 25 Years
  23. Persuading Climate Skeptics – Why We Need Republican Experts
  24. Is Moore’s Law Really a Fair Comparison for Solar?
  25. The Exponential Gains in Solar Power per Dollar
  26. Organic Crops have Lower Yields than Conventional Crops
  27. From Printing Press to Twitter: What Makes a Technology Pro-Democracy?
  28. Lessons From Egypt : Encouraging Saudi Democracy & Beyond
  29. Egypt, Twitter, and the Collapse of Top-Heavy Societies
  30. Egypt: Is Mandatory Conscription Pro-Democracy?
  31. Turmoil in Egypt Shows Shortsightedness of US Foreign Policy

2010 1

  1. Singularity Summit Talk: The Digital Biome – Re-Engineering Life on Earth to Survive and Thrive in the 21st Century

2008 7

  1. Global Warming: Risk of Methane Release from Frozen Tundra
  2. Uncertainty and Conditioning
  3. Anders Sandberg, Aubrey de Grey, Nick Bostrom on Future of Human Aging
  4. Woman Gets New Windpipe Grown from Her Stem Cells
  5. First Potential Anti-Aging Drug Clears Mouse Trials
  6. Solar Prices Drop Exponentially for 30 Years
  7. A Solar Grand Plan

2007 2

  1. Meditate – Why and How
  2. FOO Camp Talks

2005 23

  1. Great Boing Boing Review of Citizen Cyborg
  2. Blogging vs. Book Writing
  3. Gizmodo and NPR
  4. Scientific American Editors Recommend More Than Human, Citizen Cyborg
  5. Infertile Women Would Use Sex Selection
  6. >More Than Human 4th on BookTalk
  7. We’re All Transhumanists
  8. >It’s Good to Have Friends
  9. >New Lie Detectors – Same Old Problems?
  10. >Making Light of the Bush Bioethics Agenda
  11. >Why I Wrote More Than Human
  12. >Interview with Me Online
  13. >Risks of Prohibition
  14. >More Transhumanism in the Blogosphere
  15. >Transhumanism, Parenting, and Identity
  16. >Chris Mooney
  17. >First NPR Interview!
  18. >Who is More Than Human Trying to Convince?
  19. >NuSapiens Review
  20. >New Reviews
  21. >Upcoming Event: Tools for the Development of Humanity
  22. >New Site Up
  23. >Welcome