Eli Dourado

How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history

https://www.elidourado.com/p/collapse

FAA is getting one enormously consequential thing right

https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation

It's time to end the speed limit in US airspace

https://www.elidourado.com/p/50-years-supersonic-ban

A capital-intensive, high-risk way to revolutionize global commerce

https://www.elidourado.com/p/cargo-airships

Robert Solow quipped, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” What if AI is the same way? What if it changes everything except the economy?

https://www.elidourado.com/p/heretical-thoughts-on-ai

As we drill into the earth from the surface, we travel through layers of sedimentary cover and eventually hit basement rock. Basement rock is ancient and hard. Usually, it’s granite. Drilling t...

https://www.elidourado.com/p/quaise

What would we do with abundant energy?

https://www.elidourado.com/p/geothermal

Can a change in the voting system save our country?

https://www.elidourado.com/p/voting-systems

As we start a new decade, it’s a good time to reflect on expectations for the next 10 years.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/notes-on-technology-2020s

For my first post at CGO’s Benchmark blog, I chose to write about the Space Launch System, the rocket that Boeing and other military contractors are developing for NASA. I wanted to write an ex...

https://www.elidourado.com/p/sls

In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee will become the main compensation for nodes.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/bitcoin-fee-market

This summer, Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen called for a new science of progress.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/move-the-needle-on-progress

Let’s be honest.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/dawn-of-geoengineering

So far, three cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum—have hit a market cap of $100B.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/case-for-ethereum-maximalism

I spent a few days this week at my undergraduate alma mater, Furman University, to participate in a conference at the Riley Institute on national security versus civil liberties.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/career-advice-for-undergrads

After five incredible years at Mercatus, this is my last week.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/a-new-adventure

Boom is a Denver-based startup working on building a supersonic passenger jet.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/how-to-legalize-supersonic-flight-over-land

Uber’s Elevate_ concept._

https://www.elidourado.com/p/why-aviation-innovation-matters

In the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, many of us are searching for an explanation for what happened.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/maybe-america-is-too-big

I’ve seen an uptick in interest in vigorous antitrust enforcement lately in my Twitter feed.

https://www.elidourado.com/p/answers-io-pop-quiz