Missing the Manhattan Project
What America has forgotten from a moment when we still knew that science could conquer — and sin
A More Political Science
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?
What America has forgotten from a moment when we still knew that science could conquer — and sin
The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.
A report from the year 2039 on how the spirit of efficiency reformed a once-maligned institution
Good news: The agonizing moral quandary of “designer babies” has been resolved. But will scientists accept democracy’s verdict?
...but he might be anyway.
The law isn’t lagging, it’s leading.
Predictions of AI apocalypse suffer the classic egghead blunder: they overrate the power of raw intelligence.
AI will destroy a lot of jobs that are already pointless. Is that really worth celebrating?
