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Weapons industry booms as Eastern Europe arms Ukraine: acquired weapons and equipment via donations from governments and direct commercial contracts between Kyiv and the manufacturers.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement: “May we live long and die out”
The Anti-Promethean Backlash: the broad-based cultural turn away from those forms of technological progress that extend and amplify human mastery over the physical world. The quest to build bigger, go farther and faster and higher, and harness ever greater sources of power was, if not abandoned, then greatly deprioritized in the United States and other rich democracies starting in the 1960s and 70s. We made it to the moon, and then stopped going. We pioneered commercial supersonic air travel, and then discontinued it. We developed nuclear power, and then stopped building new plants. There is really no precedent for this kind of abdication of powers in Western modernity
Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich? The question of why some countries join the developed world while others remain in poverty has vexed economists for decades. What makes it so hard to answer?
“Work More, Consume Less” - How Austerity Coerces: The crisis of capitalism that followed the Great War was, for some people of means, an acute and terrifying development.
The Global Population Is Aging. Is Your Business Prepared?
Are You Ready for Workplace Brain Scanning? Get ready: Neurotechnology is coming to the workplace
Bed Habits: One insomniac’s descent into the world of sleep research to understand what screens before bed are doing to our brains.
Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works: AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce them.
MoMA’s newest artist is an AI trained on 180,000 works, from Warhol to Pac-Man
