More beneficial to humankind than AI

I turned right out of Chicago’s Hancock building and was about to cross the street when something at the far end of the towering canyon of buildings leading to Lake Michigan caught my attention.

I'm writing you from a sun-bleached refinery town just outside Los Angeles.

The Rational Optimist Diary is moving…

After 50 years of stagnation, humanity is returning to the Moon…

This is the one job AI can’t replace…

Where will you go when supersonic travel shrinks the world?

“Everything that moves will be robotic”…

This is what Matt Ridley had to say about today’s breakthrough technologies…

The future is happening—fast.

This will be the first of many diaries where we explore how to use this incredible new technology.

What if, instead of watching helplessly as nature wreaks havoc, we could control it?

If I’m right, America’s next chapter will be its best. The next 50 years will look radically different than the last 50.

Here’s how Rational Optimists should prepare for the innovation avalanche…

From AI to rocket launches, we’re entering a new age of tech innovation…

Welcome to the “innovation feast”…

2024 marks the end of the innovation slump…

Today, we’re publishing your answers to our request from last week to tell your fellow Rational Optimists about yourselves.

Nanotech could one day create real-life superheroes...

The energy revolution lies under our feet…