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S1E62 Ep 62 - The Generic Drug Trap
I’ve been thinking about circles.Not the conceptual kind — though we’ll get there. The physical kind. The ones visible on a map if you trace the journey of a single generic antibiotic from raw…
Ep 61 - The Biomanufacturing Reindustrialization Thesis
There is a question I keep returning to — one that sits underneath the policy debates, the appropriations fights, the executive orders, and the increasingly urgent memos circulating through the…
S1E60 Ep 60 - The Org Chart Dies Last
This is a special edition of The Connected Ideas Project, because while it’s Episode 60 of the podcast, it’s the 100th edition of this newsletter since launch! Thank you for being part of this…
S1E59 Ep 59 - A New Study Taking Responsible Innovation From Benchmarks to Benchwork
A few months ago, when we first started talking about the Science of Responsible Innovation at The Connected Ideas Project, I kept coming back to a simple question:How do we know?How do we know…
S1E58 Ep 58 - Legitimacy Without Consensus
Modern governance is haunted by an unrealistic expectation: that legitimacy requires agreement.We have come to believe—implicitly, often unconsciously—that if societies cannot reach consensus on the…
S1E57 Ep 57 - Who Decides the Zone of Proportionality?
If restoring proportionality were simply a matter of classification, the problem would already be solved.Green zone. Orange zone. Red zone.The framework is intuitive. The logic is sound. And yet, in…
S1E56 Ep 56 - Zones of Proportionality
Once proportionality collapses, every technology looks the same.That is the hidden failure mode at the heart of today’s technology debates. When we lose the ability to distinguish between different…
S1E55 Ep 55 - Governance Latency by Design
Every generation of complex technology eventually collides with the same hard truth: it does not matter how carefully a system is designed if the institutions responsible for governing it cannot keep…
S1E54 Ep 54 - A Vignette: AI × Bio and the Vanishing Middle
The meeting begins the way these meetings always begin: with urgency masquerading as certainty.On one side of the table—sometimes literal, sometimes virtual—are the accelerationists. They speak in…
S1E53 Ep 53 - The Collapse of Proportionality
There is a quiet failure mode running through nearly every contemporary debate about technology. It shows up in boardrooms and policy hearings, on social media and in academic journals, inside…
S1E52 Ep 52 - The Science of Responsible Innovation
From Secure‑by‑Design to Responsible‑by‑DesignFor the last three decades, the most mature technology organizations have learned a hard lesson: security cannot be bolted on after the fact. It must be…
S1E51 Ep 51 - Teaching Science to Know Itself
There are moments in history when the axis of human understanding tilts just enough to change the course of civilization. The printing press. The microscope. The transistor. And now, the emergence of…
S1E50 Ep 50 - Moral World Building and the Launch of a New Partnership
Hey my friends,It feels surreal to be sending you this edition of Tech Tuesday in the afterglow of releasing my first novel - Synthetic Eden - this morning. If you’ve been following along, you know…
S1E49 Ep 49 - Mammoths, Moonshots, and the Messiness of Life
When I first read the new Science paper on Columbian mammoths, I laughed out loud. Not because the work was funny—it’s one of the most rigorous paleogenomics studies to come out in years—but because…
S1E48 Ep 48 - The Model That Reprograms Cell Identity
The news came out in late August, wrapped in the technical language of a research announcement: OpenAI and Retro Biosciences had used a new AI model—GPT-4b micro—to design better transcription…
S1E47 Ep 47 - Seven Moonshots for the Century of Biology
I sometimes think about how quickly our relationship with life has shifted. In the span of a single generation, biology has gone from something we observed in textbooks and field journals to…
S1E46 Ep 46 - Manhattan Genomics and the Kobayashi Maru of Biology
It wasn’t that long ago—2018—that the biggest bioethics story in the world was CRISPR Baby Scientist Goes to Prison. The Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose genomes…
S1E45 Ep 45 - At the Frontier of Biology, Language Models Are the Lab Techs
There’s something quietly radical about the idea that a junior scientist—someone who’s never designed a CRISPR experiment before—can now walk into a wet lab and, on their very first attempt, edit the…
S1E44 Ep 44 - The Science of Story: Why Narrativity Belongs in Technical Writing
I first read this paper in graduate school. It wasn’t assigned. I found it on my own—probably during one of those late-night deep dives into the internet, half reading for a lab presentation, half…
S1E43 Ep 43 - The Fungus Among Us: When Ecosystems Collapse and Science Plays God
In 1999, scientists finally put a name to one of the most devastating pandemics you’ve probably never heard of: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd—the amphibian chytrid fungus. By the time it had…
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