Life after Earth ... for capitalists
Economic growth is very surprisingly limited by the speed of light! Einstein wasn't wrong (again) to have called compound interest "the most powerful force in the universe".
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Economic growth is very surprisingly limited by the speed of light! Einstein wasn't wrong (again) to have called compound interest "the most powerful force in the universe".
A great talk promoting the Hieroglyph anthology, designed to inspire optimistic technologies to solve the Earth's most urgent problems
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Daniel Abraham, author and television producer of The Expanse.
Rob Reid and Stephen Webb discuss Fermi's Paradox. Quite a good podcast series spinning off topics from the book After On by Rob Reid.
Some really "long now" thinking. I love the possible answer to the Fermi Paradox too - that the ETs are hoarding mass & energy to do their computing when the universe cools down and it's more efficient to run their data centers.