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Can you feel the Apollo 8 energy?

AI sent me into an existential crisis.

Imagine a nuclear reactor the size of a shipping container quietly powering your local hospital.

Brad Smith’s comeback story shook me to my core. You might remember Brad from our podcast—he’s a dad of three suffering from ALS, aka “Lou Gehrig’s disease.”

Two flying robots recently dropped off my burrito lunch. The first one arrived so fast, in 5 minutes, I missed capturing it on video. So I ordered another and ate both.

Down a dank and narrow back alley in San Francisco, Ian Brooke and a team of fewer than ten are quietly rebuilding the future of flight.

Where you can stumble upon a rain god

America should embrace its superpower: innovation. Innovation brings abundance, where everyone wins.

More beneficial to humankind than AI

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?