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🛑 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 swee…
Published on 11 hours ago
🤖 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 …
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
🛩️ 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 pow…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
👶 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 …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
⚛️ 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 s…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
✨ 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 his…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
📊 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…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
🎇 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 pivota…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
✨ 🧬 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 technologi…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
🚀 NASA and the New Space Age: My chat (+transcript) with James Meigs
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,
America is embarking upon a New Space Age, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin ready to partner with NASA to take Americans to a new frontier…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago