David Rotman

Three bills investing hundreds of billions into technological development could change the way we think about government’s role in growing prosperity.

New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.

Can a massive infusion of money for making computer chips transform the economy of Syracuse and show us how to rebuild the nation’s industrial base?

A decade after the high profile bust of cleantech 1.0, venture-backed firms are again flourishing. We need them to succeed. Will they?

Turning advances in clean energy and carbon-free industrial processes into sustainable businesses is expensive and risky. But we can learn from past failures.

In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right.

Watch the ondemand video of the Roundtables session: Building a Cleaner Future: Better Batteries and Their Materials. Available only to MIT Alumni and subscribers. Hosted by Casey Crownhart, Climate reporter, David Rotman, Editor at large, James Temple, Sr Editor of Climate & Energy. Learn more about what battery technologies will matter, how we will build them, and the community impacts.

Artificial intelligence could put us on the path to a booming economic future, but getting there will take some serious course corrections.

Watch the on-demand video of the Roundtables session, Putting AI’s Climate Impact Into Perspective. Available only to MIT Alumni and subscribers. Featured speakers are David Rotman, Editor-at-large, Melissa Heikkilä, Senior AI Reporter, and James Temple, Sr Editor for Energy.

Sure, there's too much red tape, but there is another reason building anything is so expensive: the construction industry's "awful" productivity.