Sitemap - 2024 - Faster, Please!
🗽✨ Yes, more skilled immigration is good for America
✨ Life in an AI utopia: A Quick Q&A with futurist and philosopher Nick Bostrom
✨🎄 Some AGI optimism: an early Xmas present
🚀 What did they take from us, exactly?
🌐 My chat (+transcript) with chaos theorist Doyne Farmer on our interconnected economy
🌌 Why 'Interstellar' is an Up Wing masterpiece
🚫 AI, job licensing, and upward mobility: A Quick Q&A with … economist Vincent Geloso
⏩💳 How faster growth can offset America's debt problem. Really.
🤖🚘 Even as GM retreats, self-driving cars continue to advance
🗽🧠 Pro-immigration policy and mutual brain gain: A Quick Q&A with … economist Gaurav Khanna
⤴✊ The techno-optimism of a 1970s Black Power activist and poet
✨🤖 Age of AI, meet the Robot Revolution
🧪 The US productivity problem that no one talks about (enough)
🚀 Missions to Mars: A Quick Q&A with … space analyst Peter Hague
👁 The Fed (maybe) sees a glimpse of the Age of AI
✨ My chat (+transcript) with tech policy expert Neil Chilson on regulating GenAI
🛰 The story of the US Space Force: A Quick Q&A with … defense policy analyst Todd Harrison
✨ 📈 The AI Paradox: When will artificial intelligence boost US economic growth?
🧠 Supporting America's smartest kids: A Quick Q&A with … political scientist Charles Murray
🎭✨ Ben Affleck’s wise words on AI
📉 Well, they ran the numbers on degrowth — and it's not good
🏘️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Bryan Caplan on density and housing deregulation
☢️ Germany’s lost nuclear decade: A Quick Q&A with … energy researcher Jan Emblemsvåg
⚠ How disruptive would a Chinese invasion of Taiwan be?
🌎 My Q&A with Francis Fukuyama on technological change and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!
🆙 An Up Wing Trump agenda: what's realistic?
🗽 The America we have, the America we could have
🐝⚛ Bees 1, Mark Zuckerberg's nuclear plans 0
🚀 SpaceX is making a space Mayflower voyage possible
✨⏩ My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Robin Hanson on AI, innovation, and economic reality
💊💉 Will the anti-obesity wonder drugs work wonders for the US economy?
😨 How the Crisis Decade set the stage for an Up Wing 21st Century
✨ How an AI technopanic begins
🚀 My chat (+transcript) with space journalist Eric Berger on SpaceX and America's New Space Age
⚛☢ Here's what can end the nuclear renaissance, according to America's biggest bank
⚡ What will power the future US economy?
✨ Daron Acemoglu: too much faith in government, too little in markets (and AI)
⚛ Atomic Amazon: The American nuclear revival takes another step forward
✨ The impact of AI and jobs: A Quick Q&A with … Daniel Rock of the Wharton School
✨ The future of AI and the US economy, according to Goldman Sachs
✨🤖 Elon Musk's true economic vision was on display at 'We, Robot'
💥 My chat (+transcript) with economist Eli Dourado on creating a fantastic future
🌀 It's actually a huge failure that we can't control hurricanes
✨ What we know about AI and the economy ... so far, at least
⤵ Why populist economics is bad: industrial policy edition
⤵ Why populist economics is bad: trade protectionism edition
🚢 🤚 Some anti-progress lessons from the port workers strike
⚛ Why (lots) more nuclear power might make economic sense
✨ AI (but not supersmart AGI) and the world of 2030
☀️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Noah Smith on technological progress
✨🤖 The Age of AGI: the upsides and challenges of superintelligence
⚛ The return of Three Mile Island (and an Up Wing America?)
🌡👶 When climate anxiety leads to childlessness
✨ AI and business: A Quick Q&A with … Andrew McAfee, author of "The Geek Way"
🛑 Degrowth: a shrinking argument
🤔 History-minded Up Wingers: Ancient Rome versus Victorian Britain. Pick your fighter.
📖 My chat (+transcript) with Mentava founder Niels Hoven on accelerating kids’ education
🦄 Forget about Left-Right Wing. How about an Up Wing America?
⤴ The Harris economic agenda: How pro-progress Up Wing is it?
✨ An AI bubble? Why I don't care
⚡ My chat (+transcript) with venture capitalist Katherine Boyle on 'American Dynamism'
🧠 Bring more smart people to America!
⤴ On the commerce-loving West: A Quick Q&A with … Samuel Gregg
↔ Cathedrals or computer chips: which way Western Man?
💥 America’s ‘exceptional’ post-pandemic economy
🔋✨ Energy and AI … A Quick Q&A with science writer Michael Puttré
✨👎 Xi Jinping an AI doomer? If only!
✨⚡ A thermodynamic miracle: Compute and energy are key to humanity's continued evolution
✈ 💥 Could supersonic air travel take flight (again)?
🏙🔎 America’s missing megalopolis mystery
🤖 The Age of AI and the 2024 (and 2028 ... and 2032) election
🙃 Keep America weird! (It’s good for innovation and growth.)
👶 The upside to population decline
💰🤖 UBI needs AGI to make sense
🤖🧠 My chat (+transcript) with Google DeepMind's Séb Krier on AGI and public policy
🌌 Here's what Up Wing science fiction can be at its best
✊ Why I'm not giving up on a New Roaring '20s
👁⏩ When humanity stopped looking backward, it started moving forward
🌡 The future of US climate change and clean energy policy
🏭 Why no Industrial Revolution in ancient Rome, Greece, or China?
⚛🧬 The importance of government R&D: A Quick Q&A with economist Andrew Fieldhouse
☀ Climate change won't destroy the global economy
☢ The Chernobyl Syndrome: Another example of just how deadly nuclear fear can be
📈 This was a good US GDP report!
🌐↔ A Quick Q&A on trade protectionism with ... economist Kimberly Clausing
⏩ We're slowly breaking through the wall of stagnation
⤵ My chat (+transcript) with investor Ruchir Sharma on where capitalist economies went wrong
🚀 Can JD Vance make MAGA more pro-progress (and Up Wing)?
🔮 We need more futurism in Washington
⚠ The risk of preemptively tackling AI risk
⤵️ 5 megaprojects that America didn’t build (but should have)
🎁 AI and technological 'eucatastrophe'
😟 A look at gloomy, dystopian Generation Z (Wayback Wednesday)
🌌 A Quick Q&A with ... lunar geologist Kevin Cannon on building and working in space
🤖🎢 Where are we in the AI 'hype cycle?'
🤖 My chat (+transcript) with Google economist Guy Ben-Ishai on seizing the historic AI moment
⤴ We need an Up Wing-themed presidential debate
⚡ America needs an Energy and Science Act
🤖 The future that AI can help build
🤖 A Quick Q&A with ... Mark Jamison on a pro-market vision for AI/tech policy
🗽 Juneteenth and the productivity shock of 1865
💥 Debt burdens, tariffs, and Up Wing thinking
🤔 Who will write the story of the 21st century?
🏙 My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Jason Barr on the skyscrapers of tomorrow
⤴ Up Wing ideas to boost America's productive capacity
🤖🎬 J.Lo's AI thriller, 'Atlas,' is an important Up Wing film. Really.
🚀 'Earthrise' and the end of the Space Age
⚛ Is Biden's nuclear dream just a fantasy?
🤖🌈 My chat (+transcript) with Nick Bostrom on life in an AI utopia
🤖📈📉 AI's economic potential: Goldman Sachs responds to Daron Acemoglu
🤖 A Quick Q&A with ... economist Michael Strain on AI
🤔 About Elon Musk becoming a Trump White House adviser ...
🤖 My chat (+transcript) with tech policy analyst Adam Thierer on regulating AI
🤖 Are we overestimating AI's potential economic oomph?
🆙 Countering 'neopopulism' with Up Wing techno-optimism
📈 Explaining the recent productivity gap between the US and Europe
☀🕕 Forget the Doomsday Clock. We need a Genesis Clock.
🌎 The economic lesson of earthquakes
🗽💨 America is outgrowing other rich countries, thanks to the ‘American Tailwind’
🧭 Congress's big AI report: Direction matters more than details
🌈 A Quick Q&A with … Maarten Boudry on whether 'climate doomers are for real'
🤖 If GPT-4o seems like ‘Her,’ it’s a welcome upgrade over ‘The Terminator’
🌡 Is the economic impact from climate change way worse than we think?
🏭 Is the CHIPS Act really working?
🤖 How should we regulate AI without strangling it?
⚠ Is America riskier than we think?
☢ 'Fallout' and the persistence of techno-optimism
🚀 My chat (+transcript) with Charles Murray on Project Apollo
🔁 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