Emerging Tech
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The cofounders of think tank RethinkX are convinced that humanity is undergoing civilizational phase change.
“We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings,” writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
In “Raising AI,” De Kai argues that today’s AIs are already more like us than we think they are.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Dreams of resurrecting lost species didn’t start in Hollywood or Silicon Valley.
Neuroscience supports the notion that mindfulness and meditation should become essential assets in our workspaces.
Will platforms continue to offer the like button as an all-purpose tool — or will each of the button’s various functions exist in new forms?
Surprisingly, multimodal large language models struggle to read time on analog clocks.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what’s possible with AI in the next 25 years.
By looking outside the current wave of hype, we can create a framework for weighing up the practical impact of AI on any business.
Spotify’s Co-President, CPO and CTO chats with Big Think about the science of discovery, Swedish innovation, C-suite podcasting, and more.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The latest from Peter Leyden’s “The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050”, an essay series published by Freethink.
OpenAI has become a household name in artificial intelligence — but back in 2018 things looked very rocky. Here’s what happened.
Tech expert Peter Leyden argues that we have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world over the next 25 years.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.
Groundbreaking invention does not always translate to commercial benefits. The challenges that faced Microsoft Research help explain why.
“Gyroscope-on-a-chip” technology could soon enable us to navigate over long distances without GPS.
“Can we push these cells to do something other than what they normally do?” asks developmental biologist Michael Levin. “Can they build something completely different?”
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank highlights an AI-powered pathway towards more productive and more creative teams.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
An approach based on collaboration and empathy can place “connection with people” at the heart of AI’s purpose.
Yondr CEO Graham Dugoni unpacks the technological zeitgeist in this exclusive Big Think interview covering media ecology, leadership, AI, human connection, and much more.