The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – There is an uncomfortable question emerging from the artificial-intelligence revolution: What if one reason we need A.I. is because human beings are not nearly as smart as they think we are? Humans built civilization. Split the atom. Landed on the Moon. Mapped the human genome. Created antibiotics,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – While I was off-grid camping in Yosemite, The New York Times began running a series marking its 175th anniversary. The New York Times at 175: A series exploring an active legacy of independent, eyewitness reporting. Perusing the story headlines gave me an idea. If you are a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Sitting quietly in a camp chair at dusk and dawn by a small fire in the North Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley, the monumental problems of the world seem to vanish for a few brief moments and time seems almost suspended. Finally…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE, Calif. – Moses. Jesus. Martin Luther King. The Beatles. Ten Years After. How many warnings does it take? How many have to die? Consider this a radio script with music. It was the Hippie Era when the concept first came to my attention that the world…
We Must Pace the Frontier – By Dario Amodei – Bio Note: Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Before that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI. Dario Amodei: Wikipedia…
The parallels with the rise and fall of the American Empire are unmistakable – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – This is where reading AND watching makes a difference. Way down in Texas this week, Donnie Trump showed how afraid he is of losing control of Congress by making a false campaign promise…
Staff Report – The Trump administration is planning a significant reorganization of the National Park Service and other bureaus with the Department of Interior, the second major shake-up of the nation’s public lands infrastructure in less than two years, according to a breaking news scoop from NOTUS, a new D.C. news outfit started by Publisher…
Take the Pledge of Altruism to Find Happiness – By Glynn Wilson – Elon Musk is living proof that great wealth does not make for great happiness. He’s the richest man in the world, the first trillionaire. Yet a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, set to make its world premiere this week at…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The world is moving toward another demographic milestone as the accelerating, exponential rate of change in technology and society speeds up beyond what the average human mind can keep up with and grasp. So here are some facts about what is coming in the years ahead. Unlike…
What Will the Administration’s Policies Actually Mean for Patients? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The Affordable Care Act changed American health care by making insurance available to millions of people who previously couldn’t obtain or afford it. The second Trump administration is now making changes that appear to be a direct…
What Obamacare Did for Patients — and What It Didn’t Fix – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, the first law ever passed by Congress to REGULATE health care in the United States, the central promise was straightforward. More Americans…
Is American Health Care Losing the Doctor-Patient Relationship to Corporate Medicine? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – There was a time when going to the doctor meant going to your local doctor, a member of your community who you knew personally. You knew the physician. The physician knew you. Your medical history…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Editor’s Note: Healthcare is one of the top domestic and economic concerns for Americans. Public opinion research consistently shows this to be the case. Recent surveys from Gallup reveal that a striking 61 percent of adults in the U.S. worry “a great deal” about healthcare, ranking it…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A record high percentage the people of the United States, 89 percent, now say government corruption is widespread, a number that is up 10 percentage points from 2025 and well above readings in the 72 to 79 percent range researchers found in surveys between 2010 and 2025.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The world has failed in its goal of limiting the average global temperature to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit and must take fast action to limit the “overshoot” or face even more cataclysmic consequences from climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy…
Stop Staring at Your Phone, Feeding the Tech Giants Traffic, and Get Involved – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – How many red flags do we have to wave before enough people will listen and take action? For many years now, we have been pointing out over and over again that the future…
Staff Report – The Trump administration has proposed trading away a parcel of land in Yosemite National Park in California so a private developer who supported Trump’s campaign for president can gain access to the park, according to federal officials and documents reviewed and reported by The New York Times. The potential deal has alarmed…
We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. – Guest Column – By Bill Gates – The transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history. Right now, we are not preparing adequately for that transition. If the world takes the right steps, AI…
The A.I. Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – When riptides are churning up the ocean, lifeguards raise red flags, warning swimmers and beachgoers of the danger. When there is danger ahead in society, scientists, experts and journalists raise red flags. That is how democracy works, or doesn’t work, if people and politicians ignore the…
Staff Report – Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the Democrat, is leading Republican businessman Steve Hilton by a double-digit margin in the race for governor of California, according to a new poll from UC Berkeley. The Institute of Governmental Studies poll found about 55% of likely voters saying they’ll support Becerra, 37%…
