As rapid advances in AI continue to raise concerns about how it can be pursued safely without stifling technological progress, the National Academies have been at the forefront of efforts to better ...

Technological progress can reduce the energy required to achieve the same ends, reducing the use of fossil fuels and the greenhouse gases associated with burning fossil fuels. But technological ...

Headlines are dominated by the oncoming AI apocalypse. The 21st century, far from being an age of decay, may prove to be the most creative and constructive period in human history, says Madsen Pirie ...

This transcript was created using speech recognition software, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript. Peter Thal Larsen Why did the Industrial ...

In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right. MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws ...

FOR decades, the global development community has had a roadmap for sustainability. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in 2015 under the 2030 Agenda, established 17 ...

New technology inevitably sparks a conversation about losing certain jobs as a result of progress, but time and time again, we have seen America, along with people en masse, benefit in the long run ...

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, 560 pp., $32) Is progress good? Despite the subjective nature of the ...

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26 years ago, Virginia Postrel published The Future and Its Enemies, which I still consider one of the most insightful books of our time. The book’s subtitle, The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, ...