Sitemap - 2022 - Faster, Please!
🚀 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
⤴ 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?
🔃 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?
🧬⚛ What mRNA vaccines and nuclear fusion teach us about America's innovation system
🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #25
🚀 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
⤴ 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.)
🌈 America's Great Environmental Overcorrection
🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #21
🚀 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
🦄 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
🚀 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
🔥 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?
🐭 The story of Disney's 'Tomorrowland Problem' and America's Long Stagnation
🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review+ #9
🤯 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
🚀 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
🚀 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?
🚀 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?
🚀 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.
🔙 The Smithsonian’s dreary 'Futures' exhibition is stuck in the eco-pessimist 1970s
⚛ Why France has a nuclear-powered economy — and America doesn't