Defending Human Ingenuity And Innovation

“Worldwide living standards are getting better, driven by humans’ desire for making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper. This is the title of Robert Bryce’s new book in which he devotes 300 pages to refuting the claims of those neo-Malthusians who think mankind is near or at “peak everything.” Instead of accepting this “collapse anxiety,” […]

How To Defuse the Power Elite

Bryce’s engrossing survey has two purposes. The first is to refute pessimists who claim that technology-driven economic growth will burn through the planet’s resources and lead to catastrophe. “We are living in a world equipped with physical-science capabilities that stagger the imagination,” he writes. “If we want to bring more people out of poverty, we […]

Stossel: The Good New Days


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THE ENGINE OF ALAN MULALLY’S SUCCESS

On July 1, Alan Mulally will retire as CEO of Ford Motor Co. And when he cleans out his office in Dearborn, Mulally will leave behind him one of the most remarkable comeback stories in US industrial history.

Beautiful Progress

Part of the fun of Bryce’s book comes from the sheer range of his examples. In one chapter, we learn how the weight of the Tour de France winner’s bicycle fell by more than half between 1903 and 2003, before the Tour stepped in and imposed minimum weight requirements for competing bicycles). In another, Bryce […]

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper by Robert Bryce

Bryce delights in mocking the pessimists of the past and the present, with their anxieties over the prospects of environmental collapse and resource depletion, and deploys plenty of hard data to support his sunny view of the future. The reason for his confidence is summed up in his title. For the past two centuries, people […]

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