The Last Optimist

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The Last Optimist is hosted by Mark P. Mills—author, businessman, physicist, contributing editor to the City Journal, and distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation—and features discussions about inventing our future. Mark's latest book is “The Cloud Revolution: How The Convergence of Emerging Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.

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Recent Episodes
  • Information About Energy is More Critical Than Ever: Time to Reboot the IEA
    Jan 17, 2024 – 36:36
  • The Imminent Prospect of a Very Bad Idea: A Carbon Tax
    Jan 8, 2024 – 33:39
  • Chemicals, Climate, Carbon, and a Cri de Coeur for Rational Dialogue
    Dec 4, 2023 – 48:21
  • Will Climate Policies Throttle the A.I. Era?
    Nov 20, 2023 – 42:43
  • Hybrid-electric Cars: Faster, Cheaper, Better and Fairer Way to Cut Oil Use
    Nov 3, 2023 – 32:46
  • Artificial Intelligence and its Energy Appetite
    Sep 26, 2023 – 42:06
  • EVs and the Simplicity Trope
    Sep 11, 2023 – 34:41
  • Harold Hamm, Icon of the Oilfields
    Aug 14, 2023 – 41:50
  • The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 4 of 4 Inconvenient Geopolitics
    Aug 8, 2023 – 48:41
  • The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 3 No Salvation from Magic Battery Tech
    Aug 1, 2023 – 43:29
  • The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 2 The ‘Hidden’ CO2 Emissions
    Jul 25, 2023 – 48:38
  • The Impossible Dream of EVs for Everyone: Part 1 The State of Play
    Jul 18, 2023 – 43:06
  • In Praise of (Virtuous) Autonomous Weapons, Part 2: Has Silicon Valley Developed a Soul?
    Jun 24, 2023 – 34:53
  • In Praise of (Virtuous) Autonomous Weapons, Part 1: The Ethical Dimension of Robots and AI
    Jun 16, 2023 – 35:20
  • Tech Investing: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (Part 2)
    May 30, 2023 – 30:01
  • Tech Investing: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (Part 1)
    May 22, 2023 – 38:09
  • EVs and the Myth of Zero Emissions
    Apr 24, 2023 – 42:47
  • Controlling Inflation: Are There “Other Things” Besides Interest Rate Hikes?
    Mar 28, 2023 – 33:43
  • Questions & Objections About the “Delusions” in the “Energy Transition”
    Mar 14, 2023 – 41:10
  • The Malthusian Invective: Are There Enough Minerals For The “Energy Transition”?
    Feb 27, 2023 – 32:01
  • What Are You Worried About?
    Feb 20, 2023 – 54:52
  • The Coming Tsunami of Energy (Transition) Spending and the Physics of Money
    Feb 6, 2023 – 51:52
  • Useful Computing Finally Arrives: ChatGPT, ChatBots & Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    Jan 30, 2023 – 45:02
  • Industrial Robots to the Rescue of the Skilled Labor Shortage
    Jan 16, 2023 – 44:52
  • The Hoped-For Energy Transition is All About Mining
    Jan 10, 2023 – 48:57
  • 2022, The Year of the EV: An Open Report Card for the WSJ’s Dan Neil
    Dec 13, 2022 – 01:13:59
  • The Technological Case for Optimism: Part 2 of 2
    Nov 21, 2022 – 57:27
  • The Technological Case for Optimism: Part 1 of 2
    Nov 14, 2022 – 52:37
  • The Question of the Decade
    Oct 18, 2022 – 41:49
  • Robots: Key to Growing Shortages of Skilled Labor
    Oct 5, 2022 – 01:00:48
  • “Climate Solutions Denialism”
    Sep 21, 2022 – 34:08
  • “To Infinity and Beyond” – Space Travel, Mars, China, Nuclear Energy
    Sep 12, 2022 – 01:03:16
  • Congress & the “Groundbreaking” Energy Spending Act: Top 10 Truths to Keep in Mind
    Aug 15, 2022 – 34:44
  • The CHIPS Act of 2022: A Bipartisan Spasm of Agreement
    Aug 8, 2022 – 32:36
  • Restarting the Future?
    Aug 1, 2022 – 40:15
  • The Ukraine Chronicles: Weaponizing Technology and Energy
    Jul 25, 2022 – 49:26
  • Markets, Policy and Tech with Ken Fisher (Part II)
    Jul 5, 2022 – 47:06
  • Markets, Policy and Tech with Ken Fisher (Part I)
    Jun 29, 2022 – 39:18
  • Again, Energy, Russia & The Stickiness of Magical Thinking
    Jun 21, 2022 – 49:53
  • We Come to Praise the EV Not to Bury the Internal Combustion Engine
    Jun 13, 2022 – 01:15:31
  • Energy & Investing During the Great Interregnum
    Jun 7, 2022 – 01:13:09
  • Russia and History’s Third Global Energy Shock
    May 31, 2022 – 45:14
  • The Return of the Very Bad Idea: A Carbon Tax
    May 11, 2022 – 36:33
  • Another (Realistic) Optimist on Technology and the Future
    May 2, 2022 – 01:03:10
  • Tesla Derangement Syndrome
    Apr 25, 2022 – 47:09
  • A Conversation with Dan Yergin About Energy, Russia, and Reality
    Apr 18, 2022 – 49:46
  • Top 6 Questions About Energy and Technology
    Apr 13, 2022 – 47:18
  • Inflation, Ukraine, Russia & The Energy Transition
    Mar 29, 2022 – 51:29
  • The Velocity of Technology
    Mar 21, 2022 – 34:06
  • Robots & A.I. in Service of Expanding Non-Russian Energy Supplies
    Mar 14, 2022 – 01:06:08
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