Sitemap - 2023 - Faster, Please!
🤖⤴ 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
⤴ 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')
🤖 '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
🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #64
🙏 We all should hope the US economy can avoid recession. Really.
🤔 American capitalism and 'deaths of despair,' again
🚀 Faster, Please! Week in Review #63
🏭 Do you want to build a factory?
☀ 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
↕ 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?
🍊 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
🚀 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?
💻 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
🤖 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
✋ 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!
🎲 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
🤖 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!