October 4, 2024
Giant nets to clean garbage from the ocean
Humanity can do more than one thing at the same time,” says Boyan Slat, the founder of Ocean Cleanup. Put like that,...
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October 4, 2024
Why the Progress Debate Goes Nowhere
Somewhere in Marc Andreessen’s brain is a dial labeled “Progress,” and in writing the “Techno-Optimist...
October 4, 2024
Ethics Won’t Save Us From AI
When it comes to new technology, including artificial intelligence, it’s easy to succumb to the temptations of doom...
October 3, 2024
Dinner with Dinosaurs
It was eight o’clock in the evening on May 15, 2023, and I was eating dinner with dinosaurs. There were five hundred...
October 3, 2024
For Whom Shall We Build?
There is a lot to appreciate in the two bold cases for constructive confidence and confident construction that Marc...
October 2, 2024
What Permitting Reform Can’t Fix
On the Great Acceleration Highway, no scenic vista gets more traffic than the prospect of permitting reform, which is...
October 2, 2024
We Don’t Need This Much Permitting
America’s process for permitting infrastructure is a convoluted mess of federal, state, and local procedures,...
October 2, 2024
If We Can Do It In Baltimore…
Last March, a container ship collided with a main support of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the...
October 2, 2024
Will Anyone Vote for Abundance?
Ever since Derek Thompson introduced the term “abundance agenda” in his 2022 Atlantic article “A Simple Plan to...
October 2, 2024
Mass. Exodus
Massachusetts has been losing residents to other states for a full generation now. That fact sits uncomfortably with...