Brave New Wild: Can Technoscience Save the Planet?

Bad news comes fast: the last decade has been the hottest on record. Venezuela is the first modern country to see its glaciers disappear. One in five migratory species faces extinction.

A band of technoscience enthusiasts – politicians, scientists and tech billionaires like Musk, Bezos, Gates and Thiel – are rushing to solutions. There are promises to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger, to remake the world at the atomic level. Ideas once the stuff of science fiction, such as brightening clouds an...