"The process of systematizing, correcting errors, finding approximations, and making them work as civil systems that was what really drove me to start looking at human calculation and what was the foundation that it laid for the modern computer age."

The deep study of friction and surfaces — so crucial to industrial manufacture — emerged from a mid-century engineering conference.

AI may be rewriting “how” we work — but not “why” we work. And this has profound implications for leadership.

Our algorithmic age encourages us to over-index on probabilities — but we should instead exercise our “storythinking brain” and focus on possibilities.

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AI “eval” outfit Mercor is one of the fastest growing companies in history. But will their rocket run out of fuel? Big Think investigates.

Robotaxis can transform cities by improving mobile efficiency, equity, and safety — if cities adopt policies that prioritize the public good.

There are two sides to the AI debate, and both are perpetuating the idea that AI is “inevitable, all-powerful, and deserves to be controlled by a tiny group of people,” says the Empire of AI author.

Tech legend Bob Taylor — a pioneer of the computing revolution — figured out the genius of framing two types of disagreement.

Our brains weren’t built for the amount of info we deal with now. That’s why scientists have made the case for a “second brain” — a place to dump ideas so you can actually see how they connect later.

From Charles Schwab to Jensen Huang, great leaders never attribute their success to flawless planning — they point instead to what went wrong.

The case for robotaxis on the water.

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

With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.

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

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

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Ryan Holiday on why wisdom depends on failure, experimentation, and the courage to admit when we’re wrong.

The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.

We chat with Mark Klarzynski, founder of PEAK:AIO, on how his company became an international player in data storage for the age of AI.

The first world beyond Earth for human habitability should be the Moon, not Mars. This is why we should terraform our lunar neighbor first.

In this excerpt from "The Shortest History of AI," Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.

Rivals may try to outnumber us with fleets of cheap vessels. Our path is to out-innovate them.

It's no wonder great writers swear by messy first drafts.

Richard Fain — Chairman and former CEO of Royal Caribbean Group — explains how a tongue-twister helped boost his company’s fortunes.

It's time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.

"We're living in an extraordinary moment in history. We are at a moment here in 2025 where we have world historic game-changing technologies now starting to scale."

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"Think of it like a transcontinental railroad — not the fastest way to move a lot of mass, but certainly the most efficient,” Jared Isaacman said about nuclear electric propulsion.

Early warning signs show AI is eating into the entry-level job market — a potential harbinger of things to come.