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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filtersThe future will be defined by economic growth that will make the present appear limp by comparison. Driverless cars will loom large precisely because they’ll free humans from so much work. It’s what…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates used to say that his company’s biggest competitor was Goldman Sachs. Yes, the investment bank. Gates’s point was that business success is a function of the people…
“Would you like fries with that?” What you just read is a question, an economic cost, but also arguably a symbol of the difficulties fast-food restaurants have long faced. How to find good,…
In 2020, West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee memorably quipped to the New York Times that he wanted “to build a wall around West Virginia and keep all the kids here. A state can’t…
Roughly a fifth of Apple’s iPhones are sold in China. Repeat the previous anecdote over and over again, and ideally convey it to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Matt Pottinger, chairman of the China…
President Trump declared that the U.S. will be “the world capital of artificial intelligence” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump’s commitment carries significant weight, given…
Ten days ago the shares of Nvidia corrected 17 percent. How could this have happened to such an “owned” and analyzed company? The answer, at least as of now, is that surprise over inexpensively…
What, within reason, is the worst sound of all to the typical human ear? One that stands out from the K-12 years is the ticking clock on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Particularly in the days of three networks…
Last week Elon Musk made waves with his latest effort to promote automation on our roads and in our homes. Seeing the sleek taxicabs and helpful robots gave hope to some, while instilling fear in…
The New York Times recently reported on the latest calls for more government regulation—even on an international scale—over the field of artificial intelligence due to perceived risks. Such…
The erasure of work won’t put mean we’re not working, but it will mean we’re working in ways that maximize our ability to showcase our unique skills and intelligence.
The problem for white collar workers and “intelligentsia” is not AI, but that its genius isn’t being felt fast enough.
As opposed to AI destroying it, its allegedly broad usage more realistically indicates that higher education has destroyed itself.
Parents will embrace a change that technology will make simple. Kids will finally get to sleep in, and because they’ll be able to sleep in, mornings will be much less of a nightmare. Isn’t “Big Tech”…
Napoleon “did not realize until it was too late that the only closed political economy is the world economy. Britain could not be starved into submission by blockade unless she were totally cut off…
Retirement is vanishing before our eyes. Probably in the lifetimes of our children it will take on dated, past tense connotations like the telephone booth. One can only hope. People are happier when…
Tractors, cars and computers are ubiquitous today precisely because they thankfully surpassed human ability, and the expectations of many skeptics back then. Let’s hope AI does too.
The surest sign of a booming economy is falling prices, and the marriage of man with thinking/doing machines is set to bring on the cheapest of “Cheap Revolutions.” Retirees will live grandly, and at…
What machines and automated minds can do for us doesn’t replace us as much as it frees us to pursue all manner of new advances.
It was a beautiful midsummer late afternoon. I had just checked into the “Inn” in Woodstock, Vermont. I grabbed my fly rod and hurried over to a picturesque covered bridge and waded down into the…
