Boldly Go
The official companion to the Boldly Go Podcast. Join Rick Smith and Mike Wagers as they venture beyond the episodes to explore the frontiers of technology, leadership, and human potential. Let's Boldly Go!
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Boldly Going 🚀
The Physics of Saving Lives ⚡️
What does it take to turn a struggling startup into a global force for public safety?
For Max Nerheim — Axon’s first electrical engineer — it started with a $20,000 fixed-price contract, a lab in a...
Who Answers When a Bot Attacks
By Mike Wagers, Ph.D.
Last week, I wrote about the need to rethink policing for the age of artificial intelligence. Just as Sir Robert Peel invented modern policing to bring order to the chaos of the Industrial Revolution, we face a n...
Keeping the Peace in the Age of AGI
By: Mike Wagers, Ph.D.
The Coming of Abundance
We are nearing the era of “AI Abundance.” It is a vision of a future where AI “demonetizes” our most basic needs. In this view, shared by Peter Diamandis, Rick, and other techno-optimist...
The AI Kill Switch is Dead
By Rick Smith
I am an unabashed techno-optimist. I’ve spent my career betting that technology, when applied with moral clarity, can solve humanity’s oldest and bloodiest problems. I believe we can end killing. I believe we can make ju...
Why 2026 is the Year We Obsolete the Error
I spent the final weeks of 2025 preparing for our 2026 Axon Kickoff, trying to find the right way to describe the moment we’re in. Normally, technological progress feels gradual. Predictable. Incremental.
But when I looked closely at the d...
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