I recently had the chance to participate in a panel about energy efficiency at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. I expected the usual discussion of all the opportunities we’re missing to be more ...

It's not just the Jevons Paradox — it's also the lump of labor fallacy. But there's no God-given right for entry-level work ...

From an economic standpoint, Jevon’s Paradox is arguably the foundation of the scaling road we have started walking down for Bitcoin. Pushing things off-chain is attempting to make the use of the ...

DeepSeek’s recent technological developments have sparked significant discussion in the tech world. As leading tech companies reassess their strategies, the rapid advancement of AI raises critical ...

The Jevons paradox still has much to teach us. The Jevons paradox still has much to teach us. Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a logical flaw. As a classic 19th-century theory known as ...

As AI becomes cheaper and more capable, I believe it will weave itself into the fabric of every job description.

The economic theory, which traces to 1865, says that as a resource becomes more efficient to use, demand will increase. It came up a lot in A.I. circles last month. By Talmon Joseph Smith This article ...

Tokenmaxxing may be over, but experts still have concerns about ballooning AI spend.

In a recent post on LED lighting, I raised the spectre of Jevons Paradox, paraphrasing Stanley by saying that "It is wholly a confusion to suppose that more efficient lighting leads to diminished ...

Aidan Connolly, President, AgriTech Capital, is a food/feed/farm futurologist and author of the book The Future of Agriculture. So far, so good: New tech can help improve efficiencies and reduce costs ...

One of the most penetrating critiques of energy-efficiency dogma you’ll ever read is in this week’s New Yorker (yes, the New Yorker). “The efficiency dilemma,” by David Owen, has this provocative ...