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I'm very excited to share that my new book, STELLAR: A WORLD BEYOND LIMITS, AND HOW TO GET THERE, co-authored with my good friend Tony Seba, is out on 18th March. I'll be posting a lot more about it in the coming weeks and months, but for now I will just say that its aims are to explain the ‘extractive’ world we live in currently, set out a vision for the extraordinary future ‘Stellar’ world that is now possible, and provide a guide through the increasing turbulence that we’re experiencing because of this ongoing transformation. It is the most important thing I have ever written, and I am so looking forward to sharing it with you.

I am very excited to share that my new book — #STELLAR: A WORLD BEYOND LIMITS, AND HOW TO GET THERE — co-authored with my good friend James Arbib, is out on March 18th. Its aims are to explain the ‘extractive’ world we live in currently, set out a vision for the extraordinary #StellarWorld that is now possible, and provide a guide through the increasing turbulence that we’re experiencing because of this ongoing #transformation. It is the most important thing I have ever written, and I am looking forward to sharing it with you all. ✨ 📖

Cultivated Meatballs & Bacon launch in retail & restaurants 🥓 https://hubs.li/Q03b2k210 "Mission Barns announces upcoming Retail Launch & first Restaurant Partnership for Cultivated Bacon & Meatballs, following FDA Clearance. This milestone follows the company’s regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its cell-cultivated pork fat. Fiorella, a leading Italian restaurant group in the San Francisco Area, is Mission Barns’ first restaurant launch partner. Mission Barns also plans to sell in retail starting at a national supermarket chain, which will become the first grocery store in the US to sell cultivated meat. These destinations will be making history as the first places to offer cultivated pork products for sale anywhere in the world." We are on the cusp of the most profound disruption of the food and agriculture sector in over a century, driven by the convergence of Precision Fermentation (PF) and Cellular Agriculture (CA), both of which are improving costs and capabilities every day... Explore RethinkX's FAQs for a deep-dive into Cellular Agriculture and Precision Fermentation: https://hubs.li/Q03b2gQW0

Clean Energy contributed a record 10% of Chinese GDP in 2024 ☀️💨🔋 https://hubs.li/Q0397DQs0 Clean energy technologies contributed a record-breaking 10% to China's GDP in 2024, equivalent to 13.6tn yuan ($1.9tn). This sector drove a quarter of the nation's GDP growth and surpassed real estate in value. Electric vehicles, batteries, and solar power ("new three" industries) led this growth, attracting over half of all clean energy investment. China's clean energy investment nearly matched global fossil fuel investment and was comparable in scale to Saudi Arabia's entire economy. First movers who embrace and accelerate the coming disruptions of solar, wind and battery within our energy systems, and electric vehicles and autonomous electric vehicles within our transportation systems will allow their citizens and economies access to cheaper, safer and more democratizing transportation options, creating an upward spiral of prosperity and opportunity... 🚀Independence: Nations that invest in SWB and EVs are in control of their own energy and transportation destiny, not reliant on other countries or susceptible to market constraints or shocks. 🚀Superabundance: Superabundant energy creates a thriving economy, where the cost of energy is barely a factor and superabundant supply is a given. 🚀Resilience: Nations that adopt SWB and EVs will become highly resilient to external market shocks or other potential disruptions. Where does your country stand in this race-to-the-top? How could you move the needle?

"By 2045, there will be virtually nothing a human can do that a machine cannot to better for a tiny fraction of the cost." https://hubs.li/Q038vw9w0 A robot that has a lifetime cost of $10,000, works 22 hours per day, and lasts 5 years would have an hourly marginal cost of just 25 cents. And when robots are building all the robots, they will cost a lot less than $10,000. Without honest and thoughtful decision-making among leadership in every domain, and very likely a complete rethinking of the basic social contract across society itself, the destabilization caused by the disruption of labor could well be catastrophic. Read the latest insight from Adam Dorr, RethinkX Director of Research:https://hubs.li/Q038vw9w0 🚀 Know when the latest RethinkX insights drop. Sign up to our newsletter: https://hubs.li/Q038wr1D0

Meta plans to release Meta AI app to compete with Open AI's ChatGPT 🌍 https://hubs.li/Q0397xqm0 Meta's upcoming AI app advances CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to make his company the leader in AI by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said. “This is going to be the year when a highly intelligent and personalized AI assistant reaches more than 1 billion people, and I expect Meta AI to be that leading AI assistant, Zuckerberg told analysts..." Uncover the rise of AI & Humanoid Robotics, and the inevitable disruption of the human labor engine... https://hubs.li/Q0397y5d0

The Luck of Existence: Why We're All Winning the Cosmic Lottery 🌍💰 Join Adam Dorr as he discusses human-kind, life on Earth and our path to a brighter future... https://hubs.li/Q0397G240

All milk, no cow 🐄🚫🥛 World’s first lab-grown whole cow’s milk by UnReal Milk https://hubs.li/Q0394_2G0 “Boston-based startup Brown Foods is preparing to showcase UnReal Milk, the world’s first lab-grown whole cow’s milk— produced without a single cow. "According to its founders, UnReal Milk is produced using mammalian cell culture— replicating the nutrition, taste, and texture of traditional dairy. It can be processed into butter, cheese, and ice cream, offering a lower-carbon, cruelty-free alternative to conventional milk. Brown Foods claims its production method slashes carbon emissions by 82%, water use by 90%, and land use by 95%, without relying on livestock.” Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture technologies will revolutionize food production. Decision-makers who remove barriers to modern food production will enable localized food production for a fraction of the cost, time, energy and land of current industrial alternatives. The future of food is already here. How will we harness it?

What are the odds you're alive today? 🌍 Adam Dorr explores the history of human-kind, life on Earth and our path to a brighter future...https://hubs.ly/Q038WR3P0

Robot with full humanoid upper body mobility launched 🤖 RethinkX predicts a complete disruption of human labor in the next 15-20 years https://hubs.li/Q038wzXj0 Figure have introduced Helix: a "generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics. Helix is a series of firsts: 🤖 Full-upper-body control: Helix is the first VLA to output high-rate continuous control of the entire humanoid upper body, including wrists, torso, head, and individual fingers. 🤖 Multi-robot collaboration: Helix is the first VLA to operate simultaneously on two robots, enabling them to solve a shared, long-horizon manipulation task with items they have never seen before. 🤖 Pick up anything: Figure robots equipped with Helix can now pick up virtually any small household object, including thousands of items they have never encountered before, simply by following natural language prompts. 🤖 One neural network: Unlike prior approaches, Helix uses a single set of neural network weights to learn all behaviors—picking and placing items, using drawers and refrigerators, and cross-robot interaction—without any task-specific fine-tuning. 🤖 Commercial-ready: Helix is the first VLA that runs entirely onboard embedded low-power-consumption GPUs, making it immediately ready for commercial deployment. Advancements in robotics and AI and the potential for near-zero cost labor point towards a complete disruption of human labor in the next 15-20 years. https://hubs.li/Q038wbxV0 Cost-curves are like gravity. The more of a new technology that gets produced, the cheaper it becomes. And as technologies get cheaper, they tend to get adopted more rapidly. Adoption of the new technology follows an S-shaped growth curve, while abandonment of the older technology collapses accordingly. Together, these form what RethinkX calls a disruption X-curve. Just like the car disrupted the horse & cart, so too will humanoid robotics & ai disrupt human labor. This time, we are the horses... 3 key takeaways on the coming disruption of labor: 1. The disruption of labor by humanoid robots is inevitable. 2. Investing in humanoid robotics is now a matter of national interest. 3. It is impossible to know in advance the full details of how the new labor system will differ from today, but the key feature is: the marginal cost of labor will rapidly approach zero. Above all, how can we protect people first, not jobs, firms, or industries? Read RethinkX's 15 key insights: https://hubs.li/Q038wBcY0