The AI doomers have been particularly active these last several months, ramping up their descriptions of all the bad things that are going to happen any moment and all the disasters that will emerge for sure in the next decade. I have been mostly heads down on deadline writing a book that tells the opposite story, focusing on the many positive things that are now possible through the next 25 years. The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050 will lay out what I call a “new grand narrative” of how America could harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive an era of great progress and make a much better world. The book won’t be available until early next year, so I thought I would use this month’s essay to quickly touch on some of the many positive things that are now within reach thanks to the recent arrival of AI, clean energy technologies, and bioengineering. I’m writing the following essay from the perspective of an American in the year 2050.…