Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View There’s no sound I don’t like.– 11-year-old Aissam Dam, after gene therapy gave him hearing for the first time A BIG THINK Who Watches…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Chat GPT is fast tracking the commoditization of the human spirit by mechanizing the imagination.– Rocker, writer and more, Nick Cave A BIG THINK…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Physics is the law, and everything else is a recommendation.–Elon Musk A BIG THINK Pondering the Future From around 1980 to around 2020, the…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Awareness, not age, leads to wisdom.–Publilius Syrus A BIG THINK Hope Is Now A Strategy As I wrote in a previous Big Think essay,…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people trying to be important.– T.S. Eliot A BIG THINK A New Age of…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.–Thomas Jefferson A BIG THINK Is Order the Anomaly? For many…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View There is only one law of history. And that is the law of unintended consequences.– Historian Niall Ferguson A BIG THINK The Unlikely Inflation…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.– Henry Kissinger, RIP A BIG THINK: COP28-ING OUT Going Along to Get Along The COP28 summit…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View AI is more dangerous than nuclear bombs.–Elon Musk A BIG THINK Has the Worm Turned? The idiom the worm has turned dates back at…