Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living From the World's Leading Optimist
Wired's "senior maverick" on his new book of accumulated wisdom, backlash against tech, and why the future still looks bright.
Wired's "senior maverick" on his new book of accumulated wisdom, backlash against tech, and why the future still looks bright.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
Confirmation of Wuhan scientists as "patients zero" makes the lab leak theory look likely—and the misinformation police look like fools.
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The bipartisan plan encourages greater involvement by the U.S. military than past policy.
In a federal lawsuit on behalf of legal U.S. residents from China, the ACLU argues that "Florida's New Alien Land Law" is unconstitutional.
Hawley might call them "tariffs on China," but that's obvious nonsense: Tariffs are paid by Americans.
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The voters opted to keep the country's ties with the island—a remarkable choice, given that China has become South America's top trading partner.
The Chinese app has become a magnet for every possible cultural concern.
May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.
"Defendants accused of creating fake social media accounts to harass PRC dissidents, and working with employees of a U.S. telecommunications company to remove dissidents from company's platform."
Federal A.I. regulation now will hinder progress, consumer choice, and market competition.
Overall human freedom peaked in 2007, according to the Cato Institute, and governments' COVID response merely exacerbated the trend toward a radically less-free planet.
The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
The Inflation Reduction Act imposes byzantine requirements to qualify for the credits. Some automakers are simply ignoring them and finding other ways to lower prices.
The bipartisan RESTRICT Act is an infringement on a host of civil and economic rights that will strangle free speech and cryptocurrencies.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion about Congress' attempt to ban TikTok with the RESTRICT Act.
Three reasons not to ban the popular social media app
For good and ill, human beings advance through trial and error. The same will be the case with A.I.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
Today, TikTok. Tomorrow, who knows?
It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
The designer of China's Great Firewall sees new A.I. tech as a concern for public authorities.
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Are we stumbling into disaster? Again?
In an interview, Redfield criticized Anthony Fauci for tamping down on speculation about the potential lab leak origins of COVID-19.
H.B. 4736 would punish foreigners who are, in many cases, deliberately building lives far away from their repressive countries.
People panicked in the 1980s that Japan's economic largesse posed a grave threat to American interests. Then the market reined it in.
American companies and consumers "bore nearly the full cost of these tariffs because import prices increased at the same rate as the tariffs."
More immigration from China would both hobble a geopolitical rival and make America richer and better.
Asian adversaries aerially admire American angst and apathy.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
Time and time again, so-called disinformation watchdogs fail their own tests—the lab leak is just the latest example.
The push to label the lab leak thesis a racist conspiracy theory now looks even more foolish.
Right now, Hongkongers have lost their avenues to speak because of the national security law imposed by the new government.
What was a local conflict is shaping up as a battle between alliances.
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
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His State of the Union address sketched a foreign policy that is reckless on some points, relatively restrained on others, and utterly uninterested in any real resolution to America’s lingering military entanglements.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
After $67 billion and more than 20 years, the F-22 finally won a dogfight against an unarmed, nearly immobile opponent.
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Expect a lot of harsh positioning on immigration and China.
Bipartisan efforts to ban the app in America would be a great blow to our economy and our liberty.
Compared to Russia, war with China is a deeper nightmare.