Ethics of Life: freedom & diversity is a sweeping, idea-dense work that asks a deceptively simple question with enormous consequences for policy, technology, biodiversity, and everyday conduct: how should we … Read more
We keep hitting planetary and economic limits because our factories are blunt instruments, not scalpels. Drexler’s answer is a manufacturing paradigm—atomically precise manufacturing (APM)—that aims to make physical things with … Read more
We argue about climate, growth, food, and energy using slogans. In his How the World Really Works, Smil replaces slogans with literacy: what energy is, where your food comes from, … Read more
Extreme heat, heat waves, and wet-bulb temperature are not abstractions anymore; they’re the daily grammar of climate change, and Jeff Goodell’s The Heat Will Kill You First is the most … Read more