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✨💪 The future of work in an age of AI: My chat with economist Daniel Rock
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly poised to change the workplace—the question is, by how much? Key voices in…
🏗️ A hub for hard-tech startups: My chat with 'American Shenzhen' builder Joshua Farahzad
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:As a college sophomore, Josh Farahzad assembled a group of students from around the country in an attempt to launch…
✨ The Age of AI, an update: My chat with policy analyst Dean Ball
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:Anxiety is running rampant about the future of artificial intelligence and its place in society. When technology…
🌎 Storm watch: My chat with climate policy expert Roger Pielke Jr.
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:Headlines portend rising seas, raging storms, and a planet in crisis. It’s easy to feel like the future is something…
☄️Awaiting apocalypse: My chat with journalist and author Dorian Lynskey
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:Since humanity’s beginning, we’ve been pondering about our end. From war, to disease, to divine reckoning, the means…
⤴️ Beyond Abundance: My chat with Brink Lindsey about his new book, 'The Permanent Problem'
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:The human pursuit of progress stems from our desire for security and a higher quality of life. Yet, even as today’s…
⚛️ A final (and lasting?) nuclear revival: My chat with nuclear energy advocate Jessica Lovering
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:Headlines abound with news of the coming nuclear renaissance — a long-awaited era of clean, abundant energy to power…
🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:NASA is attempting the difficult task of juggling highly ambitious goals, but also possibly intense budget cuts.…
✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with researcher Tom Davidson
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:What really gets AI optimists excited isn’t the prospect of automating customer service departments or human…
🚀 The trillion-dollar space race: My chat (+transcript) with journalist Christian Davenport
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,China’s spacefaring ambitions pose tough competition for America. With a focused, centralized program, Beijing seems likely to land taikonauts on…
🤖 Thoughts of a (rare) free-market AI doomer: My chat (+transcript) with economist James Miller
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Some Faster, Please! readers have told me I spend too little time on the downsides of AI. If you’re one of those folks, today is your day. On this…
🛑 Why progress stops : My chat (+transcript) with economist Carl Benedikt Frey
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,For most of history, stagnation — not growth — was the rule. To explain why prosperity so often stalls, economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a…
🤖 AI risks and rewards: My chat (+transcript) with AI researcher Miles Brundage
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Artificial intelligence may prove to be one of the most transformative technologies in history, but like any tool, its immense power for good comes…
🛩️ Human aspiration and the legacy of 'To Fly!': My chat (+transcript) with filmmaker Greg MacGillivray
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,In 1976, America celebrated 200 years of independence, democracy, and progress. Part of that celebration was the release of To Fly!, a short but…
👶 Bracing for depopulation: My chat (+transcript) with 'After the Spike' coauthor Dean Spears
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Global population growth is slowing, and it’s not showing any signs of recovery. To the environmentalists of the 1970s, this may have seemed like a…
⚛️ Our fission-powered future: My chat (+transcript) with nuclear scientist and author Tim Gregory
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Nuclear fission is a safe, powerful, and reliable means of generating nearly limitless clean energy to power the modern world. A few public safety…
✨ AI and the future of R&D: My chat (+transcript) with McKinsey's Michael Chui
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,The innovation landscape is facing a difficult paradox: Even as R&D investment has increased, productivity per dollar invested is in decline. In…
📊 The US economy at midyear: My chat (+transcript) with economic analyst Joey Politano
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,With tariff and immigration policies uncertain, and the emerging AI revolution continuing to emerge, there’s plenty to speculate about when it comes…
🎇 An age of transformation: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Peter Leyden
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,The 1990s and the dawn of the internet were a pivotal time for America and the wider world. The history of human progress is a series of such…
✨ 🧬 When AI meets biotechnology: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Jamie Metzl
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Once-science-fiction advancements like AI, gene editing, and advanced biotechnology have finally arrived, and they’re here to stay. These…
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