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The Expansion of Technological Power Human civilization is entering a period in which the scale of technological capability is increasing faster than the frameworks used to guide it. Artificial intelligence...

A CEO calls. The board wants a futurist on stage at the next strategy offsite. The brief is short. Tell us where the industry is going. Tell us what AI will do to our business. Tell us what to bet on next. It sounds...

When you have a hammer, the world is full of nails. There is no clearer description of Silicon Valley’s view of AI. The result is what I call the Hammer of AI: a single tool wielded against every problem we face...

There is no formula for predicting the future. No formula for dealing with change. No formula for living a good life, for success, for great art, for writing a great book, or for producing a great film. Every time we...

Some people see a world coming apart. Peter Leyden sees an old world dying so a better one can be born. That, in essence, is The Great Progression, the thesis of Peter Leyden’s forthcoming HarperCollins book and...

A good why can still produce bad outcomes. Here is the case a reader made me wrestle with. *** After I published The AI Paradox: Cure or Poison? last week, a reader asked me a question I have been thinking about ever...

Technology promised simplicity. It delivered complexity. AI promised resolution. It is delivering acceleration. The paradox is not a bug. It is the feature. The question is what we choose to do about it. *** Every new...

We have godlike technology. Do we have godlike responsibility to match? In this third conversation with Steven Kotler — our first in 14 years — we dig into his latest book, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age...

We don’t need more AI. We need a better why for our AI. We are told the why is obvious — cure everything, fix everything, transcend everything. But “solve everything” is not a philosophy. It is an assumption. Even the...

With Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two now behind us, the internet is full of takes about resilience, resistance, and righteous underdogs. Most of them miss the point entirely. Dune 3 — Dune Messiah — may finally set...

People ask me this constantly. At conferences, after keynotes, in the Q&A, in the parking lot on the way out. The question takes many forms but always lands in the same place: What skills should my kids develop...

A couple of days ago, I cancelled my ChatGPT paid subscription and switched to Claude. Not because of the technology. Because of their respective values, or the lack thereof. The Moment That Changed Everything On...

Was the Renaissance truly a Golden Age? Or was it something far more powerful — and far more revealing? In my third conversation with Ada Palmer, we dive into her new book, Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden...

What if some contradictions are not mistakes — but truths? For over 2,500 years, Western philosophy has treated contradiction as catastrophic. From Aristotle’s law of non-contradiction to modern formal systems, logic...

In an antitrust case brought by the Federal Trade Commission, Meta filed a brief in August 2025 containing an admission that should have been headline news. According to Meta’s own data, only 7% of time spent on...