Governments started the space age. Now, billionaires and private firms are reinventing it. Guest host Steve Levitt explores what the past can teach us about a high-stakes future. (Part two of a two-part series.)
 

• SOURCES:
  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas, vice president and fellow at Google, C.T.O. of technology and society.
  • Rosanna Hoffman, head of space law, policy, and sustainability at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.
  • Alex Macdonald, former first chief economist at NASA, senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
  • Will Marshall, co-founder and C.E.O. of Planet Labs.

 

• RESOURCES:
  • "The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface," by Will Marshall (TED, 2018).
  • The Long Space Age, by Alex Macdonald (2017).
  • Planet Labs A.I. 

 

• EXTRAS:
  • "Should A.I. Move to Space?," series by Freakonomics Radio (2026).

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