New diagnostic devices will save lives and money
Matt Ridley
A revolution in protein and DNA testing meets UK reluctance to test My Times column on the revolution in protein and DNA diagnosis: As happens in the media, the excitement generated last week by the headline that cancer could be detected in the blood was overdone. The results announced in Science magazine are a long […]
The green plan should use human ingenuity
Matt Ridley
Top down command is not the way to improve the environment My Times column on the government’s 25-year plan for the environment: The government’s 25-year environment plan is more than a piece of virtue signalling, despite its chief purpose being to persuade the young to vote Conservati(ve)onist. It is full of sensible, apolitical goals […]
The mysterious cycles of ice ages
Matt Ridley
Orbital wobbles, carbon dioxide and dust all seem to contribute An expanded version of my recent Times column on ice ages: Record cold in America has brought temperatures as low as minus 44C in North Dakota, frozen sharks in Massachusetts and iguanas falling from trees in Florida. Al Gore blames global warming, citing one scientist to […]
Artificial intelligence will be a symbiosis, not a replacement
Matt Ridley
History shows that technology augments more than displaces My Times column on AI and jobs: In the early 1960s, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there was a disagreement about what computers would achieve. One faction, led by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, championed “artificial intelligence”, believing that computers would gradually replace human beings. […]
