October 4, 2024
Towns, cities, architecture, transit, and street plans the way we used to build
I want to describe two maps. One map, produced by the programmer Vadim Graboys for his website DeapThoughts.com,...
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October 4, 2024
A whole-of-patient approach to medicine
With admirable persistence, Western medicine has maintained its Enlightenment-era view of the human body as a machine,...
October 4, 2024
Houses, a chip factory, anything really in place of Portland’s Hillsboro Airport
Oregon governor Tina Kotek has good ideas for things to build, but she is having trouble finding a place to put them....
October 4, 2024
Nuclear reactors that won’t melt down
Clean, affordable, reliable energy is at the heart of economic growth. Fossil fuels have powered the ascent of...
October 4, 2024
A landscape we have to navigate together
When my son was born, his older sisters received a special present: a We-Do-It Bench. It’s a small, toddler-sized...
October 4, 2024
Chains of geothermal power stations to keep the Yellowstone supervolcano from destroying modern civilization (and get a lot of clean power too)
Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being one of the most beautiful landscapes in the United States, is nestled...
October 4, 2024
Homes where old people and disabled people can help each other out
The U.S. surgeon general’s 2023 report on loneliness documents a scourge of isolation at national scale, with...
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,...
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...