Immortality isn’t progress. It’s paralysis.
The pursuit of immortality ignores how death powers life’s natural cycles, from cellular turnover to ecological renewal and adaptation.| Freethink
In the world of 2069, humans have more reach, more speed, and more leverage than any previous generation.| Freethink
To build a bold, abundant future, we must reform the laws, institutions, and culture that once powered human progress.| Freethink
Progress offers meaning, demands virtue, and calls builders to turn bold ideas into wonders that uplift human life.| Freethink
An excerpt from author and structural engineer Brian Potter's forthcoming book, "The Origins of Efficiency."| Freethink
Scientists are harnessing chirality — the left- and right-handedness of molecules — to build better batteries, sharper displays, and more.| Freethink
America leads the world in aerospace, software, and clean energy. Here's how it can lead in maritime, too.| Freethink
Longevity is in a paradoxical place at the moment, with anti-aging influencers misrepresenting real progress in order to make money.| Freethink
Studying animals — from long-lived clams to everyday dogs — is helping scientists understand aging and design therapies to slow decline.| Freethink
Most Americans remain wary of immortality, and research helps explain the mix of ethics, faith, and fear behind that resistance.| Freethink
Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey discusses the burgeoning longevity movement and barriers to its progress.| Freethink
Why women consistently outlive men is a mystery — and it may influence the future of longevity medicine.| Freethink
Backed by $180 million in funding from OpenAI's Sam Altman, Joe Betts-LaCroix’s Retro Biosciences is racing to extend the human healthspan.| Freethink
Field notes from Vitalist Bay, an 8-week longevity zone in Berkeley where CEOs, scientists, and activists united to fight aging.| Freethink
Progress in longevity is real, but experts say the field needs government funding, policy reform, and public buy-in to reach its potential.| Freethink
Science is beginning to unravel the reasons behind age-related cognitive decline — and what we can do about it.| Freethink
In "Super Agers," the writer and medical researcher maps a path to extending healthspan with AI, targeted drugs, and lifestyle changes.| Freethink
Experts cut through longevity hype, debunking supplements, IV drips, and cold plunges while pointing to what actually works.| Freethink
We can now use AI to create versions of real people that can live on long after their bodies die. But should we?| Freethink
From eternal recurrence to techno-dualism, five philosophical visions of immortality — and why most paths to forever end badly.| Freethink
The pursuit of immortality ignores how death powers life’s natural cycles, from cellular turnover to ecological renewal and adaptation.| Freethink
Adopting the "cheat on everything" mentality — treating thinking as a burden AI can eliminate — is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.| Freethink
Exploring the strange intersection of science, conspiracy, and military secrecy in the decades-long quest for anti-gravity propulsion.| Freethink
Real understanding, argues thought leader Jeff DeGraff, doesn’t come from outputs — it comes from practice.| Freethink
The Great Progression: 2025-2050, Leyden’s new series of essays and interviews for Freethink Voices, roughs out a new grand narrative of our historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive progress, reinvent America, and make a much better world.| Freethink
Anil Seth suggests the difference is that living beings are rooted in time and entropy, a grounding that may be essential for consciousness.| Freethink
From curing rare diseases to extending lifespans, four biotech founders share how AI is rewriting the future of medicine.| Freethink
Join us for interviews with a new generation of bold builders and thinkers. Explore humanity's future through conversations with ambitious technologists who live for progress, think in solutions, and remain curious.| Freethink
Change is hard, but necessary. "Hard Reset" explores rebuilding the world from scratch, reimagining cities, schools, power grids, prisons, money, and the internet. This is about starting over and rethinking everything for a better future.| Freethink
Emmett Shear: If we want AI to be on our side, it needs to see its part of the greater whole.| Freethink
Philosopher Jonathan Birch argues that sentience might be essential to “higher” forms of intelligence, including truly intelligent AI.| Freethink
AI could trigger a civilization-scale change for humanity the same way the steam engine helped usher in The Enlightenment 250 years ago.| Freethink
By slashing costs, AI will spark a creative renaissance in the entertainment industry, leading to more working artists, not fewer.| Freethink
An excerpt from "Rad Future: The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How It Will Save the World" by Isabelle Boemeke.| Freethink
AI researcher François Chollet thought we needed a better way to measure progress on the path to AGI — so he made one.| Freethink
America’s new mission isn’t just to invent the new technology of AI. It must invent the systems that then make the most of AI.| Freethink
Biologists are skipping the petri dish and using AI-powered virtual cells to experiment in silico.| Freethink
Bestselling author and Google Labs' Editorial Director Steven Johnson talks about the future of AI at Freethink's Great Progression event.| Freethink
At Freethink, we believe the daily news should inspire people to build a better world. We focus on solutions: the smartest people, the biggest ideas, and the most ground breaking technology shaping our future.| Freethink
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology can empower a patient-led healthcare revolution.| Freethink
The impact of AGI on the economy will be big, it’ll happen fast, and it’ll be disruptive. Here's how the disruption could play out.| Freethink
We sat down with two prominent AI artists to talk about their projects and their quest to create new genres.| Freethink
Advancements in generative art have many human artists on edge. But should they be worried?| Freethink
A copyright lawyer and fair use expert weighs in on the legal implications of these new AI technologies.| Freethink
The explosion of AI into more creative fields has forced us to ask — if artificial intelligence can not just replicate mundane tasks, but creative ones too, what is left that’s uniquely human?| Freethink
