Rational Optimist Society
Rational Optimist Society, Stephen McBride, Dan Steinhart, Matt RidleyMaking rational optimism cool
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 223 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Rational Optimist’s guide to the galaxy
Just south of LA International Airport in a former Beyond Meat warehouse, we visited a company making drugs in space.
Its drug factory fits in a cone-shaped capsule no bigger than a trash can. Inside it, drug crystals grow more perfectly i...
Ridley: Why our public sector is so unproductive
Agatha Christie once remarked that she had never expected to grow rich enough to own a car or poor enough not to have servants. The reason this strikes us as bizarre today boils down to two names that you hear invoked a lot in the tech indu...
New Podcast: How we'll prevent an AI apocalypse
Dear Rational Optimist,
Most AI pessimism boils down to the same assumption: eventually there will be “one AI to rule them all,” and it’ll need to be controlled.
But as evolutionary biologist and original Rational Optimist Matt Ridley poi...
The next frontier is under your feet
In today’s Diary:
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Nature’s steam engine switches on
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Robot otters will deliver your food
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Where nuclear waste disappears forever
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The chokepoint no one’s guarding
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A submarine for solid rock
Hey Rational Optimist,...
New Podcast: The future will be built, not coded
Dear Rational Optimist,
In December 2015 a rocket booster the size of a 15-story building dropped back from the edge of space, fired its engines, and landed upright on a Florida launchpad.
Rocket scientists had called this impossible for...
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Founder Rational Optimist Society and RiskHedge Research. Reformed cynic.
Welcome to the Rational Optimist. I’m Matt Ridley and I have spent the past 40 years writing on topics of import and intrigue, which for me include genetics, evolution, technology and innovation. https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/
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