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Real progress demands rules built for uncertainty — not for the few innovations dominating today’s tech landscape.
Common law has long balanced innovation and accountability. Can it do the same for AI?
To turn technical breakthroughs into real-world change, AI must overcome the friction of politics, policy, and human institutions.
Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.
With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.
The case that a bipartisan movement structured around progress and reform may be reaching critical mass.
Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
We chat with Mark Klarzynski, founder of PEAK:AIO, on how his company became an international player in data storage for the age of AI.
In this excerpt from “The Shortest History of AI,” Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.
Wales shares with Big Think his thoughts about the future of media, the promise of AI, and our need to build a culture on trust.
A look at how criminals are using unrestricted chatbots and how cyber defenders are fighting back.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
“What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing.”
Early warning signs show AI is eating into the entry-level job market — a potential harbinger of things to come.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
In this excerpt from “Governing Babel,” John Wihbey explores how AI is reshaping online moderation by offering tools that can help human moderators, but also raises the risk of disinformation and digital chaos.
Behind the plateau in corporate AI lies a surge in personal and agentic use.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The incredible story of how the US Army began the march toward generative AI in 1943 — and what it means for your business today.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Strategyzer CEO Alex Osterwalder on why entrepreneurs should take a leaf from Amazon’s innovation playbook.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Real understanding, argues Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.
A dialogue with Angus Fletcher — author of the bestseller “Primal Intelligence” — exploring the unique engines of human progress.
The predictions of evolutionary theorists and current advances in “multimodal AI” offer strong clues to the future of employment.