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My new monthly column for Freethink magazine, Clear Windows, is out with its first article: Technophobia has a Body Count, aka The High Cost of Luddite Policies. It rips through the history of how Luddite policies have smashed progress time and again. They haven't saved lives.

Lessons from the Golden Ages Johan Norberg Roots of Progress Institute 0:00 How human civilizations stay in shape 5:00 What is progress in the past? 7:37 Seven Golden Ages 8:50 What did the Romans ever do for us? 14:00 Northern Europe 20:30 Openness 24:30 Inclusivity 25:30 Acts of

Our Cyborg Future is Here PSYONIC 00:00 A robotic hand for everyone 00:55 Behind Psyonic 03:20 Soft robotics 04:44 Testing Psyonic’s hand 05:31 How the tech works 07:32 The ability hand's applications 08:56 Hands for robots 10:13 Making robotic limbs accessible

"I predict that by 2042 95% of humanity's energy usage will be downstream of solar." — Casey Handmer Casey Handmer

This is baked in regardless of current Congressional policy. It's not about aesthetics or carbon or jobs. The techno capital machine desires the cheapest energy and it will get the cheapest energy. The only thing policy changes is how many people miss out on generational wealth

Why 2025 is a tipping point for humanity | Peter Leyden Peter Leyden 0:00 An extraordinary moment in history 1:05 Wired magazine 2:09 Technology adoption curve 2:53 80 year cycles 3:26 Post-war era 5:08 Gilded age 6:59 Founding era 8:24 The arrival of AI 9:42 The rise of clean

We're in a clean energy crisis. Here's why: Alec Stapp

Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete? GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke explains how AI tools like Copilot are changing what it means to be a programmer. Thomas Dohmke @kristinjhouser Read more: freethink.com/artificial-int…

World Wars and the cost of progress Jason Crawford

Albert Einstein was wrong. Automation didn't cause the Great Depression. Here's how the same faulty logic is now fueling fears about AI. Pessimists Archive Read more: freethink.com/artificial-int…