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

From “crave” packs to Valentine bookings, the world’s first fast-food hamburger chain values innovation from every level of the organization.

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

"The disease is the fact that liberalism, which used to be an ideology of building, has become an ideology of blocking."

For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?

"You need to embrace these systems and try out what's going on because if you don't understand it, you really can't hope to help your organization adapt and stay in front of this momentous, world-changing technology."

Will platforms continue to offer the like button as an all-purpose tool — or will each of the button’s various functions exist in new forms?

The rapid crash of Nokia was triggered when key information gatekeepers became bottlenecks. Here’s the key lesson.

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

As we shape our future we should ask: Which interpretations of classic sci-fi fables hold sway with today’s powerful tech leaders?

Warren Buffett famously noted that Berkshire Hathaway would “never depend on the kindness of strangers to stay in business.” Startups take note.

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

Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.

After drastic cuts to the NIH, the FDA, the NSF, and the DOE, NASA science faces down its smallest budget ever. All of society will suffer.

The founder of GenZ Publishing joins Big Think from the infinitely unfurling confluence of print and digital.

Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.

One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what's possible with AI in the next 25 years.

By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.

Spotify's Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.

"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."

How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.

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

The latest from Peter Leyden's "The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050", an essay series published by Freethink.

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

Tech expert Peter Leyden argues that we have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world over the next 25 years.

The history of catastrophe shows that true resilience comes not from restoration, but from reinvention.

Back in 1970, Sister Mary Jucunda wrote NASA, decrying large investments in science. A former Nazi's legendary response is still relevant.

The founder of gourmet fast food juggernauts Pret and Itsu unpacks the meaning of success and what really inspires him.

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