Archive - Faster, Please!

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #53

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Jul 19 •

James Pethokoukis

🏫⤴ Why every student should study the history of progress (Flashback Friday)

Schools should teach how the modern world was made as foundational knowledge, not enrichment

Jul 18 •

James Pethokoukis

✨🤖 3 ways that AI could kill us all

Good news: These scenarios are really unlikely and preventing them doesn't require banning or halting the further development of artificial intelligence

Jul 17 •

James Pethokoukis

🐼 😲 Bracing for China Shock 2.0

A smart techno-strategy builds on US strengths

Jul 16 •

James Pethokoukis

📉 🔙 Another terrible degrowth argument

Market capitalism works pretty well. Deal with it.

Jul 15 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #52

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Jul 12 •

James Pethokoukis

🔚 Lessons from the end of the world: Why we take civilization for granted

The degrowth dream of a 'simpler life' isn’t about escaping modernity — it’s about buying a curated version, one with solar panels, trust funds, and…

Jul 11 •

James Pethokoukis

🎇 An age of transformation: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Peter Leyden

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #78

Jul 10 •

James Pethokoukis

31:21

🗽⤴ Elon Musk's America Party: Is It Up Wing?

Not as pro-progress as you might expect from the political project of a technology entrepreneur

Jul 9 •

James Pethokoukis

🌎🎇 Geopolitics + superintelligence: 8 scenarios

In the global race to AGI, second place is the first loser

Jul 7 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #51

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Jul 5 •

James Pethokoukis

🗽 America at (almost) 250: It still works!

As the US Semiquincentennial approaches, national decline is neither inevitable nor likely in the 21st century

Jul 4 •

James Pethokoukis

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