#future
# tech
Why breaking the grip of giant social media platforms may require a major step back into the web's early days.
# space
What happens when your crops fail and you're tens of trillions of miles from Earth?
# space
As we dream of exploring the galaxy, but some insist we're forever stuck in our solar system. Is this a cold, hard truth, or just contrarian naysaying?
# tech
Companies are bragging about record-setting layoffs thanks to AI, promising investors astronomical profits. How? They haven't gotten that far yet.
# oddities
Before we worry about artificial intelligence, we should really tackle natural stupidity.
# tech
Generative AI is being sold with utopian fantasies. Making its adoption more ethical, reasonable, and less harmful requires cold, unflinching logic.
# politics
Our world is changing rapidly. Our culture, leaders, systems, and worldviews? Not so much. And this is becoming a downright apocalyptic problem.
# tech
After losing his shirt, pants, and boxers in crypto investments, the head of a16z is re-committing to the Nerd Rapture, and commanding that you join him.
# science
Researchers trying to model what our planet will be like in 250 million years have some very bad news for us.
# science
Farm to table protein is about to become lab to table. The environmental benefits could be massive, but will people be willing to eat it, and can they afford it?
# science
Global warming is making heat weaves in already scorching years much worse. And none of us are ready for just how nasty things could get.
# space
Our spaceships have left the solar system and are heading to the stars. If we want to follow them, we're going to have to reinvent everything, ourselves included.
# longform
Many of us are living in a dystopian future, but realizing that fact and making changes to fix it are much more difficult than it sounds.
# tech
Our nearly inevitable cyborg overlords may have a lot more squish and atomic scale wiring than we were taught to expect by science fiction.
# science
New studies can answer why support for authoritarianism is on the rise and more and people are becoming disillusioned with democracy.
