Mar 8, 2023
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the white house just greenlit the first new aircraft type since 1947. archer aviation's ceo, adam goldstein, tells us what's next for electric 'air taxis' (and why helicopter guys hate him)
technologists are replaying the debates of the nuclear age, confusing technical brilliance for political judgement and gambling with our country’s future
we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. here’s how america is reviving kennedy's moonshot days, and why the trump era might do it even better