Technology
Rod on Technology, Innovation and the FutureWhy I’m Not Worried About Mass Unemployment Due to Automation
by Patrick Cox September 7, 2018 Many futurists believe that humanity is approaching a period of profound transformation as new technologies deliver new and inexpensive goods and services. Some call this dawning era “the Age of Abundance” because prices—even for goods...
Space News Roundup – September 6, 2018
New space race fuels massive economic comeback on Florida’s Space Coast; PLUS: U.S. Geological Survey believes Main Belt asteroids worth $700 QUINTILLION, plans survey effort; Japanese to conduct Space Elevator experiment; SpaceX announces Mars habitat plans; Space Force update; and more.
How AI Plays Matchmaker for Big Science and Longevity Investors
by Patrick Cox September 5, 2018 Over the last few decades, progress in the biological sciences has been nothing short of astonishing. Huge advances in IT and electronics have enabled scientists to observe and understand biological processes down to the scale of a...
Economic Growth from Octavian to Obama
Poor countries can adopt ideas and technologies that took rich countries millennia to develop and leapfrog into abundance. by Marian L. Tupy September 4, 2018 Earlier this year, the Groningen Growth and Development Centre released a new edition of its Maddison...
Revolutionary Future Ahead
by John Mauldin August 30, 2018 Back in 1936, in Esquire magazine of all places, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote something profound. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to...
Space News Roundup – August 27, 2018
SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon spaceship revealed; PLUS: Stratolaunch rolls out world’s biggest airplane; Lockheed Martin’s new space habitat; NASA’s new planet hunter; water ice discovered on the lunar surface; Space Force update; and more.
The Myth of Wage Stagnation
by Marian L. Tupy August 21, 2018 The question of the cost of living in the United States is intimately connected to the issue of the so-called “wage stagnation,” which is typically blamed on economic liberalization that started under President Carter, gathered steam...
Tesla Rival Nikola Has Raised a Huge Sum to Build Biggest Hydrogen Network
by Mike Brown August 15, 2018 Nikola, which is taking on Tesla in the renewables-powered trucking space, announced this week that it has raised more than $100 million this month as part of a $200 million Series C round of funding. The firm, which boasts a pre-money...
Japan Wakes Up to Its Aging Apocalypse
by Patrick Cox August 15, 2018 For years, I’ve predicted that Japan would be the first nation to wake up to the seriousness of continually increasing lifespans. The unexpected success of the book, The 100-Year Life—Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, in Japan...
Space News Roundup – August 13, 2018
NASA launches the fastest spacecraft in history to the Sun; plus, Falcon 9 Block 5 is fully operational; four huge new rockets to debut in 2020; Congress demands the Pentagon move toward reusable rockets; can Virgin Galactic make it to space this year?; space tourism economics; and more.
Aging Is Transforming Our Healthcare System
by Patrick Cox August 5, 2018 Increasingly, my conversations with old friends center on their frustrations with our healthcare system. When I say “old friends,” by the way, I don’t mean that I’ve known them for a long time. I mean they are old. For example, I got an...
Anti-Aging Biotechnologies Will Make Social Security and Medicare Obsolete
by Patrick Cox July 31, 2018 Because transfer payments to the aged now make up the biggest part of the federal budget, I continually hear from people who fear anti-aging therapeutics will make things worse. Extending lives by another few years, they say, will only...
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