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Part #2: The Five Frontiers
Welcome to the “innovation feast”…
Jan 5
WTF happened in 2024?
2024 marks the end of the innovation slump…
Dec 26, 2024
Meet your fellow Rational Optimists
Today, we’re publishing your answers to our request from last week to tell your fellow Rational Optimists about yourselves.
Dec 22, 2024
The awesome future of nanotech
Nanotech could one day create real-life superheroes...
Dec 12, 2024
Lasers, hot rocks, and endless energy
The energy revolution lies under our feet…
Dec 8, 2024
The new Air Force
Human fighter pilots will barely exist in a few years...
Dec 1, 2024
Bring back the blimp
Meet the startup set to revolutionize world trade
Nov 21, 2024
Mr. President, tear down these regulations
We must defeat The Blight
Nov 14, 2024
This machine turns air into jet fuel
It’s roughly the size of two shipping containers and works like a reverse power plant.
Nov 10, 2024
Welcome to the innovation feast
We’re at the start of what could be the greatest burst of innovation in human history.
Nov 3, 2024
The radical change college needs
My visit to the new University of Austin (UATX) filled me with hope for the future of college in America.
Oct 25, 2024
The awesome near-future of solar
People are vastly underestimating the stunning pace of innovation in solar
Oct 20, 2024
Biotech’s breakout moment
The biotech revolution is unfolding right under our noses
Oct 10, 2024
Nuclear cheat code
Let’s help make atomic energy cool again.
Oct 3, 2024
Welcome to the new space economy
Right now, 250 miles above our heads, innovation specialists at Airbus are growing mini hearts, livers, and kidneys in space.
Sep 29, 2024
Oh, the places we’ll go!
If you could be anywhere in just a few hours, where would you go?
Sep 22, 2024
The revolution begins
The future can be brighter than we imagine, if we build it.
Jul 16, 2024
The beginning of the end of wheelchairs
Sarah de Lagarde had her right arm amputated after getting run over by a train. Thanks to her newly fitted artificial intelligence (AI)...
Jul 15, 2024
A huge win for rational optimists everywhere
America’s largest solar farm would’ve produced enough energy to power 80,000 homes near Las Vegas. But construction was halted when...
Jul 2, 2024
How to identify an environmental wingnut
The Irish government had me write a postcard to Britain’s prime minister when I was in elementary school. They used “the children” to...
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