The Technological Promise

28 July 2019 – In 1833, the German-born inventor John Adolphus Etzler looked upon a world being rapidly transformed by the steam engine and mass production related to the industrial revolution. He saw a world that was extremely close to being transformed into a Utopia, and believed that with the available technology of the time, …

That Time When Humanity Came Together and Agreed to Save Itself

21 July 2019 – Many international treaties either fail abysmally or do not even come close to achieving what they were supposed to do. But we’re not here to discuss those treaties today. This post is about the Montreal Protocol of 1987, a shining example of human cooperation on the international scale. In 1985, a …

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