When technology becomes everyday What else came to my mind is that one of the most striking experiences is not the presence ...

Progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. For most of history, living standards remained trapped at subsistence levels until a revolutionary idea emerged 500 years ago: Society could be ...

New technology inevitably sparks a conversation about losing certain jobs as a result of progress, but time and time again, we have seen America, along with people en masse, benefit in the long run ...

For two centuries, technology has transformed how we live and work, from the steam engine to the internet. It is tempting to assume that progress will always continue. Yet history offers a sobering ...

Peters has worked across advisory, investment, and entrepreneurial roles, contributing to the development of large-scale ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Northwestern University professor and Reason contributor Joel Mokyr "for having identified the ...

In an age where technological advancements continue to accelerate, we must ask ourselves whether the next ‘big thing’ is truly necessary or just a compulsion exacerbated by digital giants. I have ...

How Progress Ends suggests that stagnation results from bureaucratic structures, sometimes appropriate for the exploitation of previous technologies but unsuited to newer ideas. Frey argues that ...