3+ week, 4+ day ago   (422+ words) As policymakers grapple with implications of AI, much of the debate has focused on ensuring that regulation keeps pace with innovation. Yet, regulation is only one part of the equation. An equally important policy instrument that must keep pace with…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (794+ words) Quipazine has been sitting in the pharmacology literature since the 1960s as a compound that almost worked. It behaves like a classic psychedelic in animals and was once investigated as an antidepressant, but it also upsets the stomach, and in human…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (559+ words) Satellite navigation, weather forecasting, and television all run through the space economy, and Goldman Sachs now expects that economy to be worth $1.8 trillion (about £1.3 trillion) by 2035. Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX, read the forecast and answered in five words:…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (407+ words) The list is the set of civilization-level technologies, the handful of capabilities so foundational that whole societies come to depend on them. Economists have kept a similar tally for years under the name "general-purpose technologies," and for two centuries it…...