Do we even need astronauts anymore?

Plus, the first city on autopilot.

// 14,000+ investors… and counting » Advertise | Talk To Us | Shop | Unsubscribe  The Futurist is your daily tech, cosmic, and science (both weird or otherwise) newsletter with articles and content curated just for you. Help us spread the word: Send the sign-up link to your friends. Humans in space: Are astronauts obsolete? "The Artemis II mission, which will return U.S. astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question is, why do we have astronauts at all? NASA's Artemis program to set up a permanent U.S. human presence on the Moon has so far cost the American taxpayer an eye-watering $93 billion in return for, at the time of publication, only one unmanned flight around the Moon to show for it. Despite this, the Orion space capsule with its crew of four aboard is now scheduled to launch atop the SLS rocket in March of this year at the earliest. At least, that's the plan." New Atlas » The easiest signal to understand Big companies are brutal. If something doesn't work, it gets cut, and everyone moves on. But Fortune 1000 brands have recurring 7-figure contracts with RAD Intel because the tech drives results: real lift, real ROI, enough to justify spending again. That usually stays behind the scenes. Instead, there's a public Reg A+ open at $0.85/share, with the price set to change on 3/12. This is one of those moments where the people with the biggest budgets already decided — before it feels like common knowledge. [Ad] Invest now » Atlanta is getting a fully autonomous public transit system "Glydways, an Automated Transit Network (ATN), said it has officially broken ground on its first publicly accessible system in South Metro Atlanta. 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In the semifinal against Italy, American curler Cory Thiesse made the winning shot that knocked the Italian team's curling stone out of its place. The strictly regulated curling stones weigh between 38 and 44 pounds and can last decades. One company, Kays of Scotland, handcrafts most professional and all Olympic stones using granite from a single small uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland." CNN » // PDFs are the cockroaches of file formats: everywhere and weirdly indestructible. Might as well get good at taming them. Forever. For one price » // If RAD Intel didn't work, Fortune 1000s wouldn't have multiple 7-fig recurring contracts. The proof is in the traction. Shares are still $0.85, but that changes on 3/12 » // Your screen time could doomscroll… or it could make you dangerously well-rounded. Nibble serves 10-minute brain snacks so you learn big ideas without the burnout » @dernadler Interested in having one of your social posts featured in The Futurist? 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