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At Freethink we tell stories about our changing world, for people who want to have a hand in changing it. Each week, we release videos and articles featuring passionate innovators who are solving humanity’s biggest challenges by thinking differently. From aerospace engineers in the Mojave Desert to entrepreneurs in South America’s biggest slum, our videos give you an intimate look at not only what they’re doing but also why they’re doing it, the obstacles they face, and what motivates them to keep driving forward. We hope that after you watch these stories, you’ll come away with insights and inspiration you can use to move the world in your own way. Freethink is a platform for the people and ideas that are changing our world. We believe that together we can move the world forward, one remarkable story at a time. Source

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Inside the network watching the world in real time

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By Kaylee Frazee
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Global tensions are rising, and the pace of change on Earth is faster than traditional intelligence can track. In regions like the South China Sea, new infrastructure can appear seemingly overnight and fleets can mobilize in hours. The ability to see these movements in real time isn’t just valuable: it’s becoming essential to prevent crises before they escalate. BlackSky is building that capability.
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A memo from the future

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It’s 2069. Congratulations. We’re still alive. If you time traveled here straight from 2025, you wouldn’t recognize the world. You’d find it as radically different as your great-grandfather would find 2025 if he could have teleported to it from the 1930s.
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A playbook for the next century of progress

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By Jason Crawford
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The following is Chapter 11 from the book The Techno-Humanist Manifesto by Jason Crawford, Founder of the Roots of Progress Institute. The entirety of the book will be published on Freethink, one section at a time. For more from Jason, subscribe to his Substack. The bold, ambitious future is waiting for us. How do we pursue it? We have the flywheel of progress on our side: progress is a self-reinforcing process.
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Progress is a grand project for humanity

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By Jason Crawford
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The following is Chapter 10 from the book The Techno-Humanist Manifesto by Jason Crawford, Founder of the Roots of Progress Institute. The entirety of the book will be published on Freethink, one section at a time. For more from Jason, subscribe to his Substack. We are creatures not only of flesh and blood, but of mind and spirit. We need more than a full belly, a shirt on one’s back, a roof over one’s head. We need meaning and purpose. We need a goal to strive for, a grand project to contribute to.
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How Ford built "an efficiency engine" around the Model T

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By Brian Potter
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Excerpted from “The Origins of Efficiency” by Brian Potter, published by Stripe Press. Available for preorder now. Copyright © 2025 by Brian Potter. Used by permission. Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US cost more than $2,000, and it seemed nearly unimaginable that a car with the capabilities of the Model N could cost so little.
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The left-right twist that could rewrite tech

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By Philip Maughan
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You may not realize it, but your hands are key to one of science’s most enduring philosophical conundrums. Your right hand is essentially a mirror image of your left, but the two are not superimposable, meaning they don’t line up perfectly if you lay one on top of the other.
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America’s path to maritime leadership is clear - but it demands urgency

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By Sampriti Bhattacharyya
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I didn’t set out to build boats. My career began in high-energy physics, searching for the hidden patterns of the universe. I then transitioned to aerospace, working on autonomous aircraft at NASA. At MIT, I turned my attention underwater, developing drones that combined guidance, sensor fusion, and autonomy to probe the hostile interiors of nuclear reactors. Looking back, the through line was learning to understand unseen systems and building machines that could navigate them.
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Sampriti Bhattacharyya

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By Sampriti Bhattacharyya
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Sampriti Bhattacharyya is the founder and CEO of Navier, a next generation company creating zero-emission marine vessels. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and deep career experience in aerospace and maritime with NASA, Fermilab, and TIFR, she pioneered innovations in robotics, AI, and underwater drones through her previous venture, Hydroswarm.
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Groundhog Day and other eternal nightmares: Five philosophical takes on living forever

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By Jonny Thomson
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Death doesn’t care about your story. It doesn’t care about race, gender, nationality, religion, or politics. Death is the “great leveller” – an egalitarian with a scythe. It comes for everyone, eventually, which is why human beings have written about it extensively. Philosophers, ostensibly human, are no different. They are well known to have one eye on the Grim Reaper at all times. And so, the history of philosophy is strewn with thought experiments about both mortality and its mirror: immortality.
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AI deadbots can keep “you” around after death - what does that mean for the living?

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By Christopher Ferguson
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On August 4, 2025, independent journalist Jim Acosta published a video interview with 17-year-old Joaquin Oliver. But he wasn’t talking to the real Joaquin — that person was killed during the Parkland high school shooting in 2018. The figure speaking in the clip looked and sounded like Joaquin, but it was actually an AI-powered virtual avatar that his father, Manuel, had developed to bring attention to the issue of school shootings.
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