The technology might be much closer than you'd think.

Before we can build the future, we have to imagine it.

These expert-recommended books reveal how big ideas can shape — and sometimes redefine — human progress.

To build a better world, we first have to understand how change actually happens.

From treating specific diseases to targeting aging itself, Progress Conference 2025 explored the many routes to extending life.

Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.

The case that a bipartisan movement structured around progress and reform may be reaching critical mass.

Reflecting on the final moments she spent with her mother, and the weeks afterwards spent cataloging her life in objects and memories, Poet Laureate of the Ordinary Kelly Corrigan shares how important it is to attune, to behold, and to notice — even if it’s difficult or uncomfortable:

From science to philosophy, three perspectives explore why humans can’t stop asking “why.” Our search for purpose, they suggest, is less about finding answers and more about learning how to move forward.

Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.

In this excerpt from "The Breath of the Gods, Simon Winchester explores how the Sumerians first named the wind and shaped our early understanding of the natural world.

Weird-looking galaxies, with tentacle-like tails or prominent dual streams, appear like jellyfish or bunny ears. But that’s just the start.

When a word comes to mean everything, it means nothing.

In a world of fast answers, leadership shaped by suffering is radical — and transformative.

Digital tools are pulling us away from fixed texts and back toward fluid, interactive communication.

“People got skeptical, fearful, doubtful of the very idea of progress in the 20th century and we allowed that to slow down progress itself.”

"Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end."

In this excerpt from "The First Eight," Congressman Jim Clyburn shares the story of Robert Smalls, the man whose audience with Lincoln may have saved the Union army.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?