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Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh

Senior Editorial Director, Future Perfect, Climate, Unexplainable and The Gray Area

    Latest articles by Bryan Walsh

    Jerry Chow wants to make quantum computers you can actually count on
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney have a plan for national progress
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    The co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Azeem Azhar is drawing a road map to a better future
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    The world’s largest child displacement crisis is in SudanThe world’s largest child displacement crisis is in Sudan
    Future Perfect

    While attention is rightly focused on the catastrophe in Gaza, millions elsewhere are suffering — and the world doesn’t seem to care.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    Why I let an AI chatbot train on my bookWhy I let an AI chatbot train on my book
    Future Perfect

    The battle over how large language models can use published works is just beginning. Copyright law isn’t ready.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    Human progress has come at the expense of animals. It doesn’t have to.Human progress has come at the expense of animals. It doesn’t have to.
    Future Perfect

    Add in the extreme suffering of tens of billions of farmed animals, and suddenly the world looks like a much darker place.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    Governments once imagined a future without extreme poverty. What happened?Governments once imagined a future without extreme poverty. What happened?
    Future Perfect

    As the UN meets in New York, progress and energy around the Sustainable Development Goals is dwindling at the worst possible time.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    Rethinking the war on invasive speciesRethinking the war on invasive species
    Future Perfect

    Invasive species cost hundreds of billions each year. But the division between “alien” and “native” isn’t so clear.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Future Perfect
    What America can learn from baseball (yes, baseball)What America can learn from baseball (yes, baseball)
    Future Perfect

    Baseball fixed itself by changing its rules. The country should pay attention.

    By Bryan Walsh
    Your guide to the 2024 Oscars
    How should we remember Trinity Site, where the first nuclear bomb was tested?How should we remember Trinity Site, where the first nuclear bomb was tested?
    Your guide to the 2024 Oscars

    Oppenheimer’s Trinity Site is where the end began.

    By Bryan Walsh