Archive - Techno-Optimist

Nuclear Frontier #4

Tracking the edge of advances in fission and fusion energy

May 2 • Owen Lewis

April 2026

Robotics Frontier #4

Progress in automation and embodied AI

Apr 4 • Owen Lewis

March 2026

Tracking the edge of machine intelligence

Mar 7 • Owen Lewis

February 2026

Techno-Optimist #36

SpaceX pivots to the Moon, more evidence of past life on Mars, bacteriophages built from scratch, working on a graviton detector, magnetically…

Feb 28 • Owen Lewis

Nuclear Energy Updates #3

Tracking the nuclear renaissance and the birth of the fusion industry

Feb 13 • Owen Lewis

Robot Updates #3

What's happening around the home, in the factory, and (crazy) on the tennis court.

Feb 3 • Owen Lewis

January 2026

Techno-Optimist #35

Polls and predictions for 2026, four epic privately funded telescopes, a new food pyramid, a hotel on the Moon, solid state batteries, gene therapy for…

Jan 21 • Owen Lewis

Top 5 Biotech Breakthroughs that shaped 2025

Reflecting on Biotechnology this past year

Published on Neural NeXus • Jan 17

Nuclear Energy Updates #2

Chronicling the nuclear renaissance

Jan 10 • Owen Lewis

Robot Updates #2

New and notable, household robots, and robots in the factory.

Jan 4 • Owen Lewis

December 2025

The latest company news, AI infrastructure, and progress with AI towards scientific discoveries, engineering, education, and more.

Dec 27, 2025 • Owen Lewis

Techno-Optimist #34

Anti-aging news, SpaceX to go public, Mars was once tropical, dark matter finally found?, antimatter production takes a leap forward, crops that…

Dec 23, 2025 • Owen Lewis