Faster, Please! — The Podcast
1) 🚀 The trillion-dollar space race: My chat (+transcript) with journalist Christian Davenport
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,China’s spacefaring ambitions pose tough competition for America. With a focused, centralized program, Beijing seems likely to land taikonauts on the...Show More
2) 🤖 Thoughts of a (rare) free-market AI doomer: My chat (+transcript) with economist James Miller
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Some Faster, Please! readers have told me I spend too little time on the downsides of AI. If you’re one of those folks, today is your day. On this ep...Show More
3) 🛑 Why progress stops : My chat (+transcript) with economist Carl Benedikt Frey
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,For most of history, stagnation — not growth — was the rule. To explain why prosperity so often stalls, economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a sweep...Show More
4) 🤖 AI risks and rewards: My chat (+transcript) with AI researcher Miles Brundage
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Artificial intelligence may prove to be one of the most transformative technologies in history, but like any tool, its immense power for good comes w...Show More
5) 🛩️ Human aspiration and the legacy of 'To Fly!': My chat (+transcript) with filmmaker Greg MacGillivray
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,In 1976, America celebrated 200 years of independence, democracy, and progress. Part of that celebration was the release of To Fly!, a short but powe...Show More
6) 👶 Bracing for depopulation: My chat (+transcript) with 'After the Spike' coauthor Dean Spears
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Global population growth is slowing, and it’s not showing any signs of recovery. To the environmentalists of the 1970s, this may have seemed like a m...Show More
7) ⚛️ Our fission-powered future: My chat (+transcript) with nuclear scientist and author Tim Gregory
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Nuclear fission is a safe, powerful, and reliable means of generating nearly limitless clean energy to power the modern world. A few public safety sc...Show More
8) ✨ AI and the future of R&D: My chat (+transcript) with McKinsey's Michael Chui
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,The innovation landscape is facing a difficult paradox: Even as R&D investment has increased, productivity per dollar invested is in decline. In his ...Show More
9) 📊 The US economy at midyear: My chat (+transcript) with economic analyst Joey Politano
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,With tariff and immigration policies uncertain, and the emerging AI revolution continuing to emerge, there’s plenty to speculate about when it comes ...Show More
10) 🎇 An age of transformation: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Peter Leyden
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,The 1990s and the dawn of the internet were a pivotal time for America and the wider world. The history of human progress is a series of such pivotal...Show More