Another “hypothetical scenario” for you, one that was very close to a lived experience for me:.

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks, bolstering origin-of-life theories.

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower.

The Bureaucracy Blocking the Chance at a Cure.

Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies.

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student.

Taiwan’s bid to export drones free of Chinese parts is taking off.

We are surprisingly bad at knowing when things began. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, partly because I lived through several of the transitions we now misremember.

The Third-Worldist Log.

Progressive Policies Are Inflationary.

The Fed Keeps Getting Hit With New Shocks in Its Yearslong Inflation Fight.

How Should We Remember the Hippies?

Social Security benefit cuts are coming — and they will hit current retirees hard.

This will result in the great disemboweling of white-collar jobs.

While full AI role displacement will happen in certain roles, history shows that wage resets are a more common, insidious, and often equally disruptive way that new technologies affect workers.