The Progress Network
The Progress Network, Zachary Karabell, Emma VarvaloucasAn idea movement that speaks to a better future in a world dominated by voices that suggest a worse one. Headquartered at New America.
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AI Doom Is a Distraction
Welcome to What Could Go Right?, where we’re welcoming cuffing season, Sunday scaries, looksmaxxing, and many more words to the dictionary.
Jacob Coxon on CNN
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end...
The Science of Sports Betting: How Gambling Apps Are Changing Our Brains
Legal betting has exploded in the US. With the phone in your pocket, you can bet on the specific outcome of a game or who will attend the next State of the Union address. But legal betting has plenty of controversy, including how it affects...
The World Map You Grew Up With Is Wrong
Maps have distorted the true size of the African continent for 500 years, but a new UN resolution is changing that. Progress Network Executive Director Emma Varvaloucas examines this historic shift toward a more accurate projection to corre...
Mercator’s Big Little Lie
Welcome to What Could Go Right?, where we’re wondering if scientists have considered that maybe the searobin, a “fish-prawn” hybrid whose special talent is walking backwards, is just an iconoclast.
Depending on your age, you likely grew up...
Could Reparations Actually Happen in America?
In the United States, we have constant debates about long-standing systemic issues like classism, racism, and economic inequality, and we speak about these issues as if they are complicated and impossible to address. But what if history tel...
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An idea movement that speaks to a better future in a world dominated by voices that suggest a worse one. Headquartered at New America.
Zachary Karabell, a.k.a. The Edgy Optimist, is the founder of The Progress Network. He is also is a public speaker, a recovering academic, a former finance exec, and an occasional entrepreneur who has written at least one too many books.
I'm the Executive Director of The Progress Network and spent a previous life at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. I write the What Could Go Right? newsletter, co-host the WCGR? podcast, and am currently working on a media literacy book.
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