I love just about every answer that Martin Rees gives in this wide-ranging interview. adactio.com/links/19780 | Continue reading
I really like the format of this bit of journo-fiction. An interview from the future looking back at the turning point of today. It probably helps that I’m into nuclearpunk just as much as solarpunk, so I approve this message. Atomkraft? Ja, bitte! adactio.com/links/19482 | Continue reading
The future of energy will be more mineral-intensive than ever before, leading China and the U.S. to compete for the world's mining and refinement capacity. | Continue reading
In a newly translated speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping demonstrates the Party's commitment to presenting its development path as Marxist, rather than allowing "state capitalist" narratives to flourish. | Continue reading
In 2009, a disastrous project on Sepulveda Pass revealed the roadblocks that stop the U.S. from being able to build. | Continue reading
Stanford dismantled its famously spontaneous campus life. The cost may be what made it great: cultivating free, independent agency in its students. | Continue reading
From obesity and microbiome decline to autoimmune disorders, the modern industrial diet has become a species-level biosecurity threat. | Continue reading
The mindfulness revolution of the twenty-first century has brought meditation to millions. Its Buddhist origins lie in Western curiosity and Eastern compromise. | Continue reading
Only a powerful modernizing force could overcome the tribal loyalties that divided Afghanistan's fragile state. That force was the Taliban. | Continue reading
El Salvador, Russia, and Afghanistan have become unlikely hubs of crypto use. Instead of evading state power, digital currencies are reinforcing it. | Continue reading
With war underway in Ukraine, Russia and Europe are once again divided. Their ultimate dependency on China and the U.S. sounds the death knell for a multipolar world. | Continue reading
Whistleblowers expose corruption. But they represent a breakdown in trust and loyalty. Confucian thought presents an alternative method of accountability. | Continue reading
Ukraine was said to be on the eve of invasion. I went to see things for myself. | Continue reading
I went to New York to learn about NFTs and their subculture. I found a vision for society that seems all too familiar. | Continue reading
South Korea’s bold story of state-led development is how every wealthy country on Earth has industrialized. State capacity is necessary to coordinate long-term industrial investments. | Continue reading
The party cadre Jiao Yulu embodied a Chinese political culture with room for experiments and risk-taking. Xi’s turn to digital technocracy may threaten its survival. | Continue reading
One man’s thought has become pivotal in China’s new political and cultural crackdowns. That man is not Xi Jinping. | Continue reading
Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didn’t need it at all? | Continue reading
They came from the internet in their war-memes and none could stand against them. | Continue reading
Projectium is a networking app for building communities around projects. On Projectium founders engage with early adopters in order to build awesome products together. PROJECT FOUNDERS get a chance to collect feedback that will improve their product, build a loyal community of e … | Continue reading
PlayCanvas has a rich JavaScript API that allows you to build just about any type of interactive content imaginable – games, playable ads, product configurators, AR, VR and more! But learning a new API can be tough. Reading API reference documentation is all well and good, but ma … | Continue reading
Startup Lessons Learned - a post by @andreasklinger | Continue reading
The IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Chips Program Committee announced the program for the 2021 Hot Chips 33 conference. | Continue reading
The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is not a clean and developed world, but lost knowledge and civilizational decline. | Continue reading
Atomic physicist Leo Szilard thought that scientists could rule the world better. The insiders who pushed him aside demonstrate what it actually takes to run the show. | Continue reading
Existential problems confront our society. Our response will the foundation of a new golden age of governance. | Continue reading
America's resurgent interest in industrial policy will go nowhere without rigorous economic foundations. State action can exploit limitations in the market to accelerate development. | Continue reading
Industrial visionaries tend to have chaotic and disruptive personalities. Their goals don't neatly fit the social ladder. But societies that make room for them reap immense rewards. | Continue reading
America's China hawks paint the country as an economic, geopolitical, and military danger. In reality, China is less a threat to America itself than it is to the legitimacy of U.S. ruling ideology. | Continue reading
Wired magazine founder and technologist Kevin Kelly discusses why technology has agency, why he believes in God but not destiny, and how to be an anti-utopian optimist. | Continue reading
Observers regularly predict the U.S. dollar's collapse as the global reserve currency. In reality, history shows that currency dominance is one of the most enduring forms of hegemony. | Continue reading
National service is a well-established way for Western democracies to build civic unity. A joint military and diplomatic initiative can spark America's institutional renewal. | Continue reading
Numerous Chinese projects adopted the Belt and Road brand. But its grand strategy propaganda has created new enemies and makes Xi responsible for every failed venture. | Continue reading
Digital centralization is increasing, and social media networks are now engaging in direct censorship. This is not a violation of the internet's original spirit, but a necessary feature of its logic. | Continue reading
Early Singapore's authoritarian competency is a model invoked by leaders from China to Rwanda. But its rise was complex, messy, and the result of long factional battles. There are hard limits to how far it can be exported. | Continue reading
Harvard prides itself as the training ground for American elites. But that goal has given way to striving managerialism, myopic career goals, and a stunted appetite for risk. | Continue reading
The Apollo Program took an impossible goal and achieved it within a decade. Charles Fishman has written an invaluable history of how social engineers, institution builders, and political deal-brokers made it happen. | Continue reading
The knowledge and practices needed for civilization to flourish are commonly lost. Thinkers in the Late Zhou dynasty of ancient China recognized the decline of their era and attempted to overcome it. | Continue reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping believes in inevitable laws of history and makes sure that his government does too. China's path of peaceful development depends on his continued belief in globalization and the rise of developing economies. | Continue reading
The U.S. pandemic response was undermined by buck-passing and bad judgment at every turn. Tech giants outperformed it thanks to lessons from the past and better incentives for the future. | Continue reading
Singapore has been held up as a model of governance. But with American political culture threatening its institutions, China's digital sovereignty may be the strategy that endures. | Continue reading
Technology doesn’t disrupt society. Society adopts technology through a process of social re-engineering. This can’t happen without functional institutions. | Continue reading