If we have lab-grown meats and lab-grown leathers, why shouldn’t we have lab-grown children? That was the proposition of Aike Ho, an investor at ACME Capital, who joined a great Twitter Space discussion on the future of the family and technology this week hosted by our own Deena Shakir and Sahil Lavingia, the founder of […]

Few technologies regularly strike the collective amygdala of our brains quite like robots. There’s the violence, the thousands of drones slashing through the air in dogfights while terrestrial assassin robots icily eliminate their prey. Then there’s the economic fears that robots are scarfing all the jobs coupled with the social fears that in the future, […]

Canadian writer Stephen Marche’s new book The Next Civil War was officially published last week, and it made quite a splash among those of us who read it at Lux. Marche pulls no punches in his opening lines: “The United States is coming to an end. The question is how. Every government, every business, every […]

Everyone wants to be on the cutting edge — who wouldn’t want to take a glimpse at the future when the future is already here? The internet, app stores, social networks and more have accelerated the classic “S-curve” adoption of new technologies, where early adopters arrive in advance of the broad mass of consumers before […]

The biggest news this morning came from the Wall Street Journal, where Paul Kiernan reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is exploring an expansion of reporting requirements for large, late-stage private companies (aka unicorns and decacorns). From the article: The SEC, Wall Street’s top regulator, has begun work on a plan to require more […]

There are many activities that are valuable for science. However, only a small subset of these are actually valued by scientific academia; in other words, there are only certain activities that will get you tenure (certain kinds of research, certain types of scientific publication). As a result of this, we need to create and foster new types […]

We’ve branded our little corner of the web “Securities” — why? When I look around the world today, it isn’t hard to get cynical. Right now in Kazakhstan, authoritarian president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered his security forces to “shoot to kill” protesters fighting rising fuel prices and government corruption. The Omicron variant is laying waste […]

Science is a discipline of instrumentation. Behind each scientist’s discovery and invention lies a collection of tools that open up the natural world to human observation. Progress in science is nearly synonymous with the discovery of new instruments that open our eyes to frontiers never before seen. Take DNA, for instance. Notions of a biological […]

No one likes a patent troll, and yet, America has continued to facilitate their work. As almost every startup founder has at some point confronted, litigious orgs take unused patents and roam the country, demanding payment from startups and large companies alike in the pursuit of revenue. Feed the beast, and you continue the cycle. […]