Sitemap - 2024 - Faster, Please!
🔁 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
☀ 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