Derek Thompson

Imagine, let's say, if NASA was hacked by the Chinese Communist Party and NASA was like, we're not going to have any internet for the next decade, but we still want to get a rover to the moon or a rover to Mars. We have to do it. No Excel, no Google Docs, no email. This isn't like an unsolved problem. We literally did it 60 years ago.

Imagine, let's say, if NASA was hacked by the Chinese Communist Party and NASA was like, we're not going to have any internet for the next decade, but we still want to get a rover to the moon or a rover to Mars. We have to do it. No Excel, no Google Docs, no email. This isn't like an unsolved problem. We literally did it 60 years ago.

We developed a technology to not only land a man on the moon, the craziest thing is having the part of the spaceship orbiting the moon while Neil Armstrong is walking around that we have to then take off from the moon and hook up with this thing orbiting around the moon and then blast us back to Earth. Built all of this without an internet. It's unbelievable.

We developed a technology to not only land a man on the moon, the craziest thing is having the part of the spaceship orbiting the moon while Neil Armstrong is walking around that we have to then take off from the moon and hook up with this thing orbiting around the moon and then blast us back to Earth. Built all of this without an internet. It's unbelievable.

We developed a technology to not only land a man on the moon, the craziest thing is having the part of the spaceship orbiting the moon while Neil Armstrong is walking around that we have to then take off from the moon and hook up with this thing orbiting around the moon and then blast us back to Earth. Built all of this without an internet. It's unbelievable.

So I am not, of course, rooting for a world in which NASA and the US government's technological capabilities are catastrophically hacked by the Chinese Communist Party. But I suppose the silver lining is we could still get to the moon without the internet. We know it because we did it.

So I am not, of course, rooting for a world in which NASA and the US government's technological capabilities are catastrophically hacked by the Chinese Communist Party. But I suppose the silver lining is we could still get to the moon without the internet. We know it because we did it.

So I am not, of course, rooting for a world in which NASA and the US government's technological capabilities are catastrophically hacked by the Chinese Communist Party. But I suppose the silver lining is we could still get to the moon without the internet. We know it because we did it.

We're in New York right now. Next is Boston, your home. Yep. Our talk is at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Nice. And then we're going to D.C. and then L.A., San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Research Triangle.

We're in New York right now. Next is Boston, your home. Yep. Our talk is at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Nice. And then we're going to D.C. and then L.A., San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Research Triangle.

We're in New York right now. Next is Boston, your home. Yep. Our talk is at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Nice. And then we're going to D.C. and then L.A., San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Research Triangle.

I told her. Did you just have a kid? We have a 19 month old and it's been made clear to my wife that she gets a really, really nice gift after all of this. Like maybe an island, you know, like certainly a beautiful piece of jewelry. All right. Congrats on the book.

I told her. Did you just have a kid? We have a 19 month old and it's been made clear to my wife that she gets a really, really nice gift after all of this. Like maybe an island, you know, like certainly a beautiful piece of jewelry. All right. Congrats on the book.

I told her. Did you just have a kid? We have a 19 month old and it's been made clear to my wife that she gets a really, really nice gift after all of this. Like maybe an island, you know, like certainly a beautiful piece of jewelry. All right. Congrats on the book.

In his recent address to Congress, Donald Trump promised a golden age of America. But when you take a closer look at his policies, when you squint through the blur of tariffs added and removed and re-added and re-removed, I think the picture that moves into focus is something very different than an expansive vision of the future. It's something more like a pinched vision of the present.

In his recent address to Congress, Donald Trump promised a golden age of America. But when you take a closer look at his policies, when you squint through the blur of tariffs added and removed and re-added and re-removed, I think the picture that moves into focus is something very different than an expansive vision of the future. It's something more like a pinched vision of the present.

In his recent address to Congress, Donald Trump promised a golden age of America. But when you take a closer look at his policies, when you squint through the blur of tariffs added and removed and re-added and re-removed, I think the picture that moves into focus is something very different than an expansive vision of the future. It's something more like a pinched vision of the present.

Again and again, the Trump White House has pointed to existing shortages to demand new sacrifices. They say America cannot afford our debt, and therefore, we can't afford healthcare for the poor. They say America doesn't have enough manufacturing, and so we must accept less trade. They say America doesn't have enough housing, and so we need fewer immigrants. Less for less.

Again and again, the Trump White House has pointed to existing shortages to demand new sacrifices. They say America cannot afford our debt, and therefore, we can't afford healthcare for the poor. They say America doesn't have enough manufacturing, and so we must accept less trade. They say America doesn't have enough housing, and so we need fewer immigrants. Less for less.

Again and again, the Trump White House has pointed to existing shortages to demand new sacrifices. They say America cannot afford our debt, and therefore, we can't afford healthcare for the poor. They say America doesn't have enough manufacturing, and so we must accept less trade. They say America doesn't have enough housing, and so we need fewer immigrants. Less for less.