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Tech legend Bob Taylor — a pioneer of the computing revolution — figured out the genius of framing two types of disagreement.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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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.
Unlikely Collaborators
Media trailblazer Tim O’Reilly tells Big Think why AI requires "get yourself dirty" work — and warns us not to buy the hype.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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“Until very recently, I thought I would die with the same genome that I was born with.”
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“Old systems of the past are collapsing, and new systems of the future are still to be born. I call this moment the great progression.”
From Charles Schwab to Jensen Huang, great leaders never attribute their success to flawless planning — they point instead to what went wrong.
Decades before COVID imposed remote work on the world, Jack Nilles pioneered WFH and championed its many benefits.
The case for robotaxis on the water.
An introduction to "The Engine of Progress" from Jason Crawford, founder of the Roots of Progress Institute.
Real progress demands rules built for uncertainty — not for the few innovations dominating today’s tech landscape.
Before we can build the future, we have to imagine it.
Common law has long balanced innovation and accountability. Can it do the same for AI?
These expert-recommended books reveal how big ideas can shape — and sometimes redefine — human progress.
To turn technical breakthroughs into real-world change, AI must overcome the friction of politics, policy, and human institutions.
To build a better world, we first have to understand how change actually happens.
At the foundation of America’s progress movement are immigrants who still believe this country can build.
Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.
With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.
Government-spec’d glory projects produce tech demos. Enduring progress demands a better way forward.
The case that a bipartisan movement structured around progress and reform may be reaching critical mass.
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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“Progress happens when we choose to make it happen. It happens through choice and effort. And ultimately, to make progress happen, we have to believe in it.”
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“People got skeptical, fearful, doubtful of the very idea of progress in the 20th century and we allowed that to slow down progress itself.”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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.