From the Brooklyn Bridge to the polio vaccine, society once honored signs of progress with parades, fireworks, and festivals.

A bold vision of a 10x better future where humanity has mastered biology, energy, and matter to unlock unprecedented progress.

If we get AI right, it will accelerate empowerment, enabling people to learn any subject, start any business, and realize any vision.

Believing in the next solution is not blind optimism or even wishful thinking — it is a recognition that humans are problem-solving animals.

Economic growth is driven by ideas, not resources — and as history shows, the well of innovation is unlikely to ever run dry.

From where we stand, the true limits to growth are currently unknowable and need not affect any decisions we make today.

Have we begun to lose faith in the future? The idea of ‘progress’ didn’t truly exist throughout the majority of human history. Most ages didn’t see history as an upward […]

We need to figure out what drives progress, what might cause it to slow down or stop, and what, if anything, we can do to re-accelerate it.