This Week I’m Tracking: 12 developments across the sectors shaping our future
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#1: Digantara
Description: Digantara is a space surveillance company.
Why Is This Company Interesting? Digantara recently raised $50M in venture capital funding. Digantara is a space-tech company focused on space situational awareness and orbital intelligence. The company deploys space-based surveillance sensors and analytical software to track satellite traffic, map space debris, and provide collision avoidance and orbital data.
#2: Brinc
Description: Brinc builds drones for emergency response agencies.
Why Is This Company Interesting? Brinc recently raised $125M in venture capital funding. Brinc aims to provide end-to-end public safety drone programs, bundling hardware, software, and services. Over 900 public safety agencies across all 50 states have deployed their solutions. These products are fully compliant and manufactured in the USA.
#3: Astranis
Description: Astranis is a commercial satellite company.
Why Is This Company Interesting? Astranis recently raised $300M in venture capital funding. Astranis is a space startup building microGEO communications satellites. Unlike traditional larger geostationary satellites, Astranis builds small, low-cost satellites dedicated to single geographic regions or customers to deliver high-speed, low-cost broadband internet access to underserved areas.
#4: Focused Energy
Description: Focused Energy is developing laser-based fusion systems.
Why Is This Company Interesting? Focused Energy recently raised $240M in venture capital funding. Focused Energy is a fusion startup that uses high-energy, short-pulse lasers combined with fast ignition target designs. Focused Energy aims to achieve scalable, commercial laser-driven nuclear fusion to supply clean, limitless baseload energy to the grid.
#5: Endurance Energy
Description: Endurance Energy is a startup that pursues undersea geothermal energy.
Why Is This Company Interesting? Endurance Energy recently raised $25M+ in venture capital funding. Endurance Energy is a clean-tech startup building modular, subsea geothermal power plants. Endurance operates near oceanic thermal resources, harnessing offshore geothermal heat to generate continuous, zero-carbon baseload energy without land-use or surface infrastructure constraints.
The New York Times: The Absurd, Unending Quest to Floodproof the New York City Subway
More than 120 years ago, workers built the first portions of the transit system by hand in shallow trenches. This meant that rain never really had to travel deep to cause chaos. Even as construction technology advanced, these problems persisted. As climate change worsens, this problem will only expand over time, with no real solution in sight.
The New York Times: In An Age of Perpetual Climate Disaster Rebuilding is the Wrong Goal
Disaster intervals are collapsing, with the time between one issue and the next shrinking rapidly. One consistently becomes the next, and recovery fails to keep pace. Drought is followed by rainfall, wildfires lead to mudslides, earthquakes are followed by hurricanes, and many more. Nobody really knows what recovery looks like, so what should we do?
The Wall Street Journal: Space Entities Dodge Traffic as Satellites Debris Crowd LEO
There is more man-made material in space than ever before. As the number of satellites in low Earth orbit increases, the chance of collisions that could damage or destroy spacecraft increases. There are over 34k satellites and pieces of debris in low Earth orbit. One major concern is that a major crash or series of crashes could set off a chain reaction, leaving parts of low Earth orbit unusable.
The New York Times: Why Labor’s Share of Wealth is Shrinking
Workers are earning a smaller and smaller share of the economy’s income. It’s now around 53% of income, down from around 65% following WWII. The reasons? Some blame industry consolidation, corporate greed, corporate profits as a share of GDP, and more. Others argue that it’s the influx of AI and other new technologies driving a reduced labor share.
Inside Trade: Governments Must Balance IP Policies for AI
Governments must balance intellectual property protections with support for AI and other emerging technologies. You can protect IP while promoting innovation and AI development, but it’s a complicated balance. Countries need better ways to do this and to be proactive.
Big Think: How to Make Difficult Decisions
Life is about asking difficult questions and accepting that there are no immediate, easy answers. We can gather information, learn from others, and research to the ends of the earth, but often the best answer eludes us. They don’t fit our standard decision-making frameworks. If external reasons run out, we can use internal reasoning to round out the process.
Reddit: What are the strongest philosophical arguments for and against the existence of god?
This is more of a tip-of-the-iceberg guide rather than a truly interesting thought. I stumbled across this post while browsing the internet the other day and thought this list of resources was interesting and could help anyone deep in this question.
For God’s Existence
The Modal Ontological Argument, formulated by Alvin Plantinga
The Kalam Cosmological Argument, formulated by William Lane Craig
The Fine-Tuning Argument, formulated by Robin Collins
The Design Argument, the best version is by Swinburne in his book cited below
The Moral Argument, which is a family of arguments that aim to show that objective morality requires God’s existence
The Inductive Argument, combining many of the arguments for God, by Richard Swinburne. You can read his book The Existence of God, where he formulates and defends the (total) inductive weight of many arguments for God
Against God’s Existence
The Logical Problem of Evil, formulated by J. L. Mackie
The Evidential Problem of Evil, formulated by William Rowe
The Problem of Divine Evil by David Lewis
The Argument from Divine Hiddenness has several formulations
Oppy’s Best Argument, which purports to show that atheism is a better theory than theism over a wide range of phenomena
That’s a wrap on this week’s roundup.
Drew Jackson
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