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Welcome to the healthier, happier world of 2030. Heart attacks and strokes are down 20%. A drop in food consumption has left more money in people’s wallets. … Continue readingHow ‘Miracle’ Weight-Loss Drugs Will Change the World
“Most of the law professors and judges who read it were polite enough to say the arguments were thought provoking, but…” … Continue readingThe Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
Henry Farrell in American Affairs on Silicon Valley’s Never-Ending Search for Exit Opportunities… … Continue readingBusiness Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley
Harvard Univ. reports engineering strategies: solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, and ocean fertilization, etc. … Continue readingCan We Engineer Our Way Out of Climate Change?
In this tech-vexed age, our life on screens prevents us from experiencing the mysteries and transformative wonder of life. … Continue readingHow Digital Life Threatens Our Capacity For Awe
Can we reinvent agriculture for a low-carbon world without people going hungry? Change will be dirty at first but could get cleaner. … Continue readingCan We Keep Producing More Food in a Warmer World?
Ahmari grapples with Sunkara’s argument that social democracy lost worker support by prioritizing capital interests… … Continue readingSocial Democracy, Immigration and the Working Class
The problem is that investment is driven by profit, not price, and operating solar and wind farms remains a marginal business… … Continue readingWhy Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does. … Continue readingComputers Don’t Actually Do Anything. They Don’t Write, or Play; They Don’t Even Compute.
Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”. … Continue reading‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”
Twenty-five years ago, fighting globalization was a cause of left-wing anarchists. How did it become a cornerstone of Trumpism? … Continue readingHow Donald Trump Made Anti-Globalization a Right Wing Calling Card
“Well, sometimes Ledwinka looked over my shoulder and sometimes I looked over his.” –Ferdinand Porsche on designing the Volkswagen. … Continue readingHow Nazi Germany Created the Volkswagen Beetle