When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What is it about our inclination to pessimism? The fact is, our brains are hard-wired this way.
Despite the negative histrionics, AI could potentially solve the developed world’s population/productivity dilemma. Currently ...
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier by Joe Studwell. Atlantic Monthly Press, 435 pages.
As workers, we collectively understand the challenges we face best because we are the class that makes society run. And in ...
Theories of the impending end of the world are a dime a dozen, but some of those theories take themselves a little bit less ...
Image: Illinois Distributed Museum] Every few years, humanity gets handed a shiny new deadline for its own extinction. And, ...
Two recent publications on India’s demographic profile and population policy weave interesting perspectives with a historical thread. One reflected on past attempts to restrain population growth and ...
MR. LOVE'S treatise is the necessary complement to Todhunter and Pearson's “History of the Theory of Elasticity,” in which an abstract is given of all the most important original memoirs bearing on ...
IN connexion with the discussion of the physical interpretation of the quantum theoretical methods developed during recent years, I should like to make the following general remarks regarding the ...
Toward the end of the 18th Century, a country gentleman of Surrey, England, used to argue with his son concerning the perfectability of society. Quoting his optimistic French friend. Jean Jacques ...
WIRED is obsessed with what comes next. Through rigorous investigations and game-changing reporting, we tell stories that don’t just reflect the moment—they help create it. When you look back in 10, ...
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