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Environmental Scientist · Technology Theorist · Author
A brighter future is within reach
Adam studies how disruptive technologies in energy, transportation, food, and labor are transforming civilization. His work makes a data-driven case for optimism: the same technologies upending old industries give us the means to solve our greatest environmental challenges.
Adam Dorr is an environmental social scientist, technology theorist, and author. He studies how technology disruptions unfold and what they mean for economies, societies, and the environment. His work argues that technology-driven abundance is the surest path to solving our environmental challenges and to unprecedented human flourishing.
As Director of Research at RethinkX, Adam led the research program behind its analyses of disruption across energy, transportation, food, labor, and health, and co-authored the Seba Technology Disruption Framework. He is now Chief Scientist at NavigateX.
He has spent more than a decade teaching, lecturing, and speaking on stage, radio, podcasts, and television. The film adaptation of his debut novel, More than the Sun and Stars, is now in active development.
Ad solem et astra!
PhD
UCLA
MS
University of Michigan
Professor of Practice
Kyiv School of Economics
Role
Chief Scientist, NavigateX
Previously
Director of Research, RethinkX
Now
Current work
RethinkX concluded its research operations in October 2026. Adam is continuing the mission to build a brighter world on several fronts.
Substack
Adam's newsletter on technology and disruption, science fiction as serious thinking about the future, and the arrival of artificial superintelligence. Every essay is free to read, and video versions are posted to YouTube.
Subscribe →Going Stellar
The podcast about a future without limits and how to get there, covering the latest in technology, disruption, energy, artificial intelligence, robots, and more, co-hosted with Bradd Libby.
A Stellar education company
A new education company, co-founded with Bradd Libby. Name and details to come.
More than the Sun and Stars, the film
A film adaptation of Adam's novel is in development.
About the film →Advisory
Bespoke advisory services, on retainer, for a small number of clients.
Contact for details →Books
Ideas that matter
Brighter
Optimism, Progress, and the Future of Environmentalism
Technology disruptions in energy, transportation, and food will give us the tools to solve climate change and our other environmental challenges. A data-driven antidote to despair.
The Degrowth Delusion
Dispelling One of History's Truly Terrible Ideas
A rigorous dismantling of degrowth ideology, and the case for technology-driven abundance as the way to solve our greatest challenges.
More than the Sun and Stars
A Novel
A captivating and awe-inspiring story that explores what it means to be a child and a parent, to have power and responsibility, and to retain one's identity in the face of staggering technological change.
Film in development →Research
Adam's work at RethinkX
Adam directed the research program at RethinkX, an independent research organization that analyzed and forecast technology-driven disruption and its implications across society. RethinkX concluded its research operations in October 2026, and all of its research remains freely available.
- 2026Rethinking Health: The Health Optimizer Therapy Disruption
- 2025Toward a Practical Theory of Technology Disruption: Seba Technology Disruption Framework 2025With Tony Seba, James Arbib, Bradd Libby, Owen Westfold, and Taylor Hinds
- 2025Understanding Stellar Energy
- 2025Clean Disruption: 10 Years Later
- 2022Rethinking Energy: Germany's Path to Freedom
- 2021Rethinking Energy: The Great Stranding
- 2021Rethinking Climate Change
- 2020Rethinking Energy 2020–2030
Get in touch
Connect with Adam
For speaking engagements, media inquiries, advisory services, or other questions.
adam@adamdorr.com