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Is there a limit on how long humans can live? Read the full article: www.freethink.com/biotech/long...

#Longevity
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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What if you could add 10 healthy years to your life? | R.M. Schneiderman with Joe Betts-LaCroix

Read the full story here: www.freethink.com/biotech/joe-...

#Longevity
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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What can the Model T teach us about building better systems today?

This excerpt from Brian Potter's new book "The Origins of Efficiency" explores the roots of modern productivity: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...
How Ford built "an efficiency engine" around the Model T
An excerpt from author and structural engineer Brian Potter's forthcoming book, "The Origins of Efficiency."
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October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Why can we locate a smartphone in seconds, but a jetliner can vanish into the ocean?

Read the full essay: www.freethink.com/opinion/mari...
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The Longevity Issue is live now!

This special issue explores the science and philosophy of living longer with essays and interviews from experts like Eric Topol, B. David Zarley, and Josie Zayner.

Some highlights: 🧵
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A dramatization of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" is remembered as history's most infamous radio broadcast.

The problem is... the panic following the broadcast was largely manufactured by news outlets.

#PessimistsArchive
September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Anti-gravity could cut decade-long space journeys down to days.

But is it real science or the ultimate disinformation campaign?

Read the full story by Andrew Cote: www.freethink.com/space/anti-g...
September 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Can a chatbot’s words truly be treated like human speech — or are we rewriting the First Amendment on fear? #AI #MentalHealth

Read the full article by Christopher Ferguson: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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What does it mean when technology, not evolution, sets the limits of the human body? #Biology #History

Read the full article by Elle Griffin: www.freethink.com/biotech/huma...
September 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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“What is it that these gut symbionts are doing that can protect us?” #Biology

Read the full article by Namir Khaliq: www.freethink.com/biotech/worm...
September 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Can AI outperform scientists?

"As AI becomes more adept ... human-led lab experiments are becoming increasingly unnecessary."

Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/biotech/ai-b...
August 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Now, the Sony Walkman is a cultural icon.

But back then it was “a bit Black Mirror."

Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...
August 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Would making AI more human make it smarter?

Read the full interview with @PhilosophyMinis and @birchlse: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
August 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"AI isn’t going to kill the entertainment industry, but it will end the creative bottleneck."

#Opinion #AI #Automation
August 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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What if AI virtual cells could help us decode disease, test medication, and rewrite biology?

Read the latest edition of Future Explored here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

#FutureExplored #AI #Biology
August 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Opinion: The Golden Dome should be built — just not the way Trump imagines.

"Skeptics once thought an Iron Dome was unnecessary. Waves of rockets and missiles proved them wrong."

Read the full article from Gal Winter: www.freethink.com/the-changing...
July 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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What if the real danger isn't AI, it's the humans that control it?

The 2004 movie, "I, Robot" poses a convincing allegory to embrace AI innovation.

Read more: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
July 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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For decades, the assumption in discussions around technology is that we cannot stop it. We must simply adapt.

But that assumption is wrong. Categorically wrong.
July 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg is stealing top AI engineers with $300 million pay packages.

Here's why big tech is using the sports team playbook:
July 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This neuroscientist is on a quest to cure comas.

Read more: www.freethink.com/biotech/cure...
Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.
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July 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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There are no new ideas in AI — only new datasets.

All four big breakthroughs in LLMs happened because we unlocked a new source of data. What will be the next one?

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There are no new ideas in AI — only new datasets
Our next AI breakthrough will come when we unlock a dataset we’ve either overlooked or never fully harnessed.
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July 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Albert Einstein was wrong. Automation didn't cause the Great Depression.

Here's how the same faulty logic is now fueling fears about AI.

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Albert Einstein said automation caused the Great Depression. It didn't.
Einstein blamed automation for the widespread unemployment of the Great Depression, but his reasoning was based on a false premise.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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World Wars and the cost of progress
July 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete?

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke explains how AI tools like Copilot are changing what it means to be a programmer.

@ashtom @kristinjhouser

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Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete?
Freethink talks to the creator of the world's most popular AI coding assistant to find out whether learning to code is still worthwhile.
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July 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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A call to innovators in Silicon Valley and beyond to help chart the new way forward.

At a recent Freethink Conversation, Peter Leyden urges innovators to drive progress and help build a much better world.

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A call to innovators in Silicon Valley and beyond to help chart the new way forward
Peter Leyden sums up the key themes and big ideas of his new series at a Freethink Conversation in San Francisco.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM