Notes on technology in the 2020s
Will we end the Great Stagnation? Here are the technologies I'm watching in the next decade.
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Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind
A baby girl who developed a life-threatening brain condition was successfully treated before she was born—and is now a healthy seven-week-old.
We’re effectively alone in the Universe, and that’s OK
Solitude is not a curse—it urges us to explore the mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.
When digital nomads come to town
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