Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

What is “progress”? I attended The Atlantic’s first-ever “Progress Summit” this week hoping to get a straight answer, but, ironically, no one at the conference made any attempt to actually define the concept of progress! Perhaps progress is synonymous with … Continue reading →

The Atlantic’s first-ever Progress Summit took place at the NeueHouse in Hollywood, where the original CBS Studios in Los Angeles were located. (The Neuehouse was also world’s first structure built intentionally for television broadcast.) I invited two of my college-age … Continue reading →

One of my favorite parts of Derek Thompson’s Progress Summit was the session on “How Artificial Intelligence Can Revolutionize Art and Creativity“, where Don Allen Stevenson III (pictured below) demonstrated “DALL·E 2” (see here), a new AI platform that can … Continue reading →

According to this report via Business Insider (see also the Tweets posted below), it looks like Elon Musk has secretly attempted to “shadowban” (i.e. censor) a popular Twitter account called @ElonJet, which tracks the movements of Musk’s private jet in … Continue reading →

Derek Thompson, a staff writer at The Atlantic (see here) and the host of the “Plain English” podcast (here), has assembled an eclectic group of scientists, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and artists to exchange ideas on a wide variety of topics at … Continue reading →

Today 12/12 is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, so I am posting a brief ballad in her honor, the song “Indita”. The version posted below is sung by Miriam Solis, who was born in Guadalajara, the birthplace … Continue reading →

Originally posted on View from the Back:
It sometimes seems that wherever we go we’re following in the footsteps of one Ernest Hemingway, particularly when it comes to bars! The Nobel Prize–winning author could not only write, but drink way better…

But what should we replace the penalty kick phase in football (soccer) with, you may riposte? Glad you asked! I found this proposal by Jim Pagels (via Forbes). Below is an extended excerpt At the conclusion of regulation, there will … Continue reading →

Alternative title: Review of Katherine Mangu-Ward’s “The case for space billionaires” and Mike Riggs’s essay on space insurance This week, I have devoted most of my blog to several new essays about outer space that were published in the December … Continue reading →

Alternative title: Review of Rebecca Lowe’s “Space is an opportunity to rethink property rights” Thus far, I have reviewed several essays from the December 2022 issue of Reason magazine on various aspects of outer space. My favorite piece by far, … Continue reading →