History

Progress offers meaning, demands virtue, and calls builders to turn bold ideas into wonders that uplift human life.

The 20th century left us with fatalism, defeatism, and a hollowed-out vision of the future. Techno-humanism can restore our belief in progress.

Decades before Geoffrey Hinton and Eliezer Yudkowsky raised alarms, the computer scientist warned AI could steal jobs and outsmart humans.

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

Across history, the human body has been reshaped by discipline, medicine, and now technology — each era redefining peak performance.

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

Peter Leyden sums up the key themes and big ideas of his new series at a Freethink Conversation in San Francisco.

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

Decades before states started banning lab-grown meat, manufactured ice was the "unnatural" alternative under attack.

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