“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”

“An equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would allow us to, quote, 'Read the mind of God.'”

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

Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.

Author and geopolitical strategist Paulo Cardoso do Amaral urges us to ask: Will we shape AI with wisdom, or will AI reshape us with strategy?

The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.

Today’s technologist archetypes share a blind spot. Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute explains why “philosophy is essential” when building planetary-scale technology.

Agentic AI pioneer Chetan Dube considers ways that everyone can be lifted by the tide of AI, not just those with the capital to leverage it.

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

Snorre Kjesbu — SVP & GM of Cisco’s Employee Experience group — has a bold vision for the future of human interaction.

"The rise of the internet brought about similar fears, yet it ultimately made learning richer and more accessible."

From the printing press to the internet, every technological revolution in history has reshaped human thought. Now, with AI accelerating by the day, philosopher Meghan Sullivan asks: Are we ready for the philosophical shift that must follow?

In "Raising AI," De Kai argues that today's AIs are already more like us than we think they are.

The platform is a digital Royal Society for today's greatest minds — and it could play an essential role in shaping the next civilization.

"Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain," writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.

Just 10 years ago, humanity had never directly detected a single gravitational wave. We're closing in on 300 now, with so much more to come!

"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."

You don't need to be a scientist or a philosopher for facts, reality, and the truth to matter. The alternative is simply known as bullshit.

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.

Hugo-winning author Ken Liu explores what early cinema and Chinese poetry can teach us about AI's potential as a new artistic medium.

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

Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.

Common knowledge says the maximum size of a PDF is as big as 40% of Germany — but that’s a gross underestimate.

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

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit "Pantheon."

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

“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”

OpenAI has become a household name in artificial intelligence — but back in 2018 things looked very rocky. Here’s what happened.