The Curious Mind

The Curious Mind

Cheap Thinking, Expensive Machines

Intelligence now has two prices, and they're moving apart. Whoever sits between them decides what you'll pay for thinking, who gets rich, and what happens to your pension.

The Curious Mind
Aug 29, 2026
∙ Paid

"Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter."
— Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, 1954

“At particular times a great deal of stupid people have…

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