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Exploring the collision of technology, business and society. Curious / Thoughtful / Open / Constructive. Changing media with @bigthink.

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Freethink @freethink.com · Dec 9

Hello Bluesky,
We're Freethink.

We share stories about the ideas shaping our future.

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What if you could add 10 healthy years to your life? | R.M. Schneiderman with Joe Betts-LaCroix

Read the full story here: www.freethink.com/biotech/joe-...

#Longevity

Freethink @freethink.com · 7d

What can the Model T teach us about building better systems today?

This excerpt from Brian Potter's new book "The Origins of Efficiency" explores the roots of modern productivity: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...

How Ford built "an efficiency engine" around the Model T

An excerpt from author and structural engineer Brian Potter's forthcoming book, "The Origins of Efficiency."

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Freethink @freethink.com · 17d

Why can we locate a smartphone in seconds, but a jetliner can vanish into the ocean?

Read the full essay: www.freethink.com/opinion/mari...

Freethink @freethink.com · 18d

Explore the full issue here: www.freethink.com/collections/...

The End of Death as We Know It?

A collection of features, essays, and op-eds mapping the frontier of longevity research and the people working to bring healthspan gains to everyone.

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Freethink @freethink.com · 18d

Freethink's own science and tech writer Kristin Houser on cryopreservation — the tech that already powers IVF and cancer treatments, and could one day end the organ shortage, enable deep-space travel, and maybe even challenge death itself.

Freethink @freethink.com · 18d

A feature by biologist and author Andrew Steele that explains how to tell genuine breakthroughs from snake oil—and why the first true anti-aging medicines could be approved within five years.

Freethink @freethink.com · 18d

An essay from Josie Zayner making a sharp case for embracing mortality.

"We are here because of death. It’s not a flaw in the system — it is the system."

Freethink @freethink.com · 18d

A deep dive into what animals can tell us about ageing by B. David Zarley.

Freethink @freethink.com · 18d

A conversation with cardiologist and author Eric Topol on the science of living better in old age.

Freethink @freethink.com · 18d

The Longevity Issue is live now!

This special issue explores the science and philosophy of living longer with essays and interviews from experts like Eric Topol, B. David Zarley, and Josie Zayner.

Some highlights: 🧵

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Louis Anslow covers what actually happened and why it matters: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...

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A dramatization of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" is remembered as history's most infamous radio broadcast.

The problem is... the panic following the broadcast was largely manufactured by news outlets.

#PessimistsArchive

Freethink @freethink.com · 28d

Anti-gravity could cut decade-long space journeys down to days.

But is it real science or the ultimate disinformation campaign?

Read the full story by Andrew Cote: www.freethink.com/space/anti-g...

Freethink @freethink.com · Sep 18

Can a chatbot’s words truly be treated like human speech — or are we rewriting the First Amendment on fear? #AI #MentalHealth

Read the full article by Christopher Ferguson: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Freethink @freethink.com · Sep 17

What does it mean when technology, not evolution, sets the limits of the human body? #Biology #History

Read the full article by Elle Griffin: www.freethink.com/biotech/huma...

Freethink @freethink.com · Sep 16

“What is it that these gut symbionts are doing that can protect us?” #Biology

Read the full article by Namir Khaliq: www.freethink.com/biotech/worm...

Freethink @freethink.com · Aug 26

Can AI outperform scientists?

"As AI becomes more adept ... human-led lab experiments are becoming increasingly unnecessary."

Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/biotech/ai-b...

Freethink @freethink.com · Aug 20

Now, the Sony Walkman is a cultural icon.

But back then it was “a bit Black Mirror."

Read the full article here: www.freethink.com/consumer-tec...

Freethink @freethink.com · Aug 13

Would making AI more human make it smarter?

Read the full interview with @PhilosophyMinis and @birchlse: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Freethink @freethink.com · Aug 12

Read the latest edition of Clear Windows by Daniel Jeffries here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

Freethink @freethink.com · Aug 12

"AI isn’t going to kill the entertainment industry, but it will end the creative bottleneck."

#Opinion #AI #Automation

Freethink @freethink.com · Aug 4

What if AI virtual cells could help us decode disease, test medication, and rewrite biology?

Read the latest edition of Future Explored here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...

#FutureExplored #AI #Biology

Freethink @freethink.com · Jul 25

Opinion: The Golden Dome should be built — just not the way Trump imagines.

"Skeptics once thought an Iron Dome was unnecessary. Waves of rockets and missiles proved them wrong."

Read the full article from Gal Winter: www.freethink.com/the-changing...

Freethink @freethink.com · Jul 24

What if the real danger isn't AI, it's the humans that control it?

The 2004 movie, "I, Robot" poses a convincing allegory to embrace AI innovation.

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Freethink @freethink.com · Jul 24

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In humanity’s dance with technology, people lead. Always.

As the history of tech demonstrates, we do not have to simply accept and adapt to AI. We can, collectively, choose what to do with it.

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