For the last two years, the AI revolution has been a consumer-facing spectacle. We have been mesmerized by ChatGPT writing poetry, Midjourney creating art, and large language models (LLMs) passing the bar exam. This spectacular, public-facing “creator” boom has defined the narrative, sucking all the oxygen from the room. But while the world has been […]
For the entire history of medicine, its most fundamental rule has been immutable: to heal a patient, you must be in the room. From the first shamanistic rituals to the most advanced open-heart surgeries, the physical co-location of healer and patient has been the bedrock of care. That rule has just been shattered. In a […]
It began as a ripple of collective, low-grade panic. Sometime on a Monday, the digital assistants we had begun to treat as extensions of our own minds—our copilots, our research aides, our creative muses—simply went silent. Reports flooded social media: ChatGPT was down. Claude was unresponsive. Perplexity was spinning. For a few hours, the modern […]
For the past two years, the conversation about AI has been dominated by what happens on a screen. We’ve obsessed over large language models (LLMs) writing essays, diffusion models creating art, and AI copilots summarizing our meetings. The entire revolution, as transformative as it has been, has remained trapped behind the glass of our monitors […]
The vision for Artemis is one of the grandest ambitions in human history. It is not just a mission to leave footprints and flags, but to build a permanent, sustainable human presence on the Moon. It’s a multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar program involving the most powerful rocket ever built (SLS), a new generation of human-rated capsules (Orion), […]
It started, as it always does, with a flicker. First, your work Slack or Teams chat couldn’t connect. Then, the internal database you needed to access spun endlessly. Annoyed, you took a break, only to find your smart speaker was unresponsive and your streaming service was down. You checked your banking app—it failed to load. […]
For the better part of three years, opening the Instagram app has felt like an exercise in cognitive dissonance. You opened it to see photos of your friends, your family, or your niche hobbies. Instead, you were met with a full-screen, auto-play video from a “creator” you’d never heard of, an ad for a product […]
We tell ourselves a comforting story about lead. We tell ourselves it’s a problem solved—a ghost of a dirtier, more industrial past. We celebrate the great public health victories of the 20th century: the banning of lead from gasoline in the 1970s, the prohibition of lead-based paint in 1978. We successfully removed the primary sources […]
The vision for Artemis is one of the grandest ambitions in human history. It is not just a mission to leave footprints and flags, but to build a permanent, sustainable human presence on the Moon. It’s a multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar program involving the most powerful rocket ever built (SLS), a new generation of human-rated capsules (Orion), […]
