Foundations & Frontiers
An essay series mapping the technological frontier.
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An overview of the growing issue of soil erosion and degradation.
A deep dive into the innovations behind the rise of wind power.
An overview of the supercomputers at the bleeding edge of science.
A deep dive into the principles and materials behind the world's most iconic bridges.
An overview of the prevalence and negative externalities of microplastics.
A deep dive into the concepts powering privacy in the 21st century.
Estimating the impact of GLP-1s on healthcare and the economy.
Napkin math estimates on AI energy usage.
A deep dive into why geothermal may be the key to energy abundance.
A deep dive into how AI is breathing new life into biological research.
A deep dive into the efforts bringing mining into the 21st century.
A deep dive into how electric vehicles are changing the auto industry.
A deep dive into the advancements in genome editing.
A deep dive into the legacy of fossil fuels.
A deep dive into the fundamentals of brain computer interfaces.
A deep dive into the fundamentals of digital communication infrastructure.
An overview and deep dive into the technical challenges we'll confront traveling to and settling Mars.
A deep dive into the technical innovations behind video games.
A deep dive into the mysteries and future of flight.
A deep dive into polymer science's impact on the modern world.
A deep dive into the core innovations behind the new rocket age.
A deep dive into how the evolution of construction materials over time has shaped humanity's built environment.
A deep dive into the additive manufacturing technologies transforming mass production.
A deep dive into the booming desalination industry.
A deep dive into the new developments unfolding in nuclear power generation.
A deep dive into the past and future of tunnel boring.
A deep dive into what it will take to modernize America's grid.
A deep dive into technical and biological bases for developing molecular machinery.
A deep dive into the technical breakthroughs driving new excitement in mixed reality tech.
A deep dive into how the coming solar revolution may change the global energy landscape.
Detailing the vision for Foundations & Frontiers, Contrary's essay series breaking out into its own media publication.
A deep dive into a lidar; a once-forgotten technology that's now transforming the field of computer vision.
A deep dive into the past and future of robotics.
A deep dive into the technologies changing the future of medicine.
A deep dive into the technologies turning excess atmospheric carbon into valuable industrial inputs.
A deep dive into the innovations powering this decade's artifical intelligence boom.
A deep dive into the frontiers of the burgeoning space economy.
A deep dive into the science of battery power.
A deep dive into the core concepts of fusion technology.
A deep dive into the core technologies allowing for food abundance.
A deep dive into the evolution and future of computer chip design.
A deep dive into the past and future of metallurgy.
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