Discovery Institute

Discovery Institute promotes thoughtful analysis and effective action on local, regional, national and international issues.  The Institute is home to an inter-disciplinary community of scholars and policy advocates dedicated to the reinvigoration of traditional Western principles and institutions and the worldview from which they issued.  Discovery Institute has a special concern for the role that science and technology play in our culture and how they can advance free markets, illuminate public policy and support the theistic foundations of the West.  The Institute was founded by  Bruce Chapman and George Gilder in 1991.

The work of Discovery Institute is disseminated through books, papers and reports, conferences, lectures and seminars, through regular radio and television appearances by scholars and fellows, and through sponsorship of national and international colloquia, seminars and conferences.

Discovery is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with scholars and fellows located around the country, and even internationally.

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Beyond Chips, Silicon, & Data Centers: The Coming Terahertz Waferscale Paradigm

Discovery Institute
January 27, 2025
George Gilder and Robert Metcalfe explore the evolution of semiconductor technology and the emerging shift from traditional chips to waferscale integration (WSI). Gilder reflects on how the “Planar Revolution” in integrated circuits, initiated by figures like Bob Noyce and Carver Mead, fundamentally changed computing by introducing flat, integrated circuits. This led to the proliferation of microchips. However, the current chip-centric model, represented by companies like NVIDIA and their 3D chip designs for AI, is reaching its peak. Gilder proposes that the next step in computing will be wafer scale integration, which maintains the planar principle but eliminates the need for small, discrete chips. In WSI, large wafers are used to create vast arrays of interconnected …

Meet Discovery Institute Academy Teacher Kristin Marais

Discovery Institute
June 26, 2023
Get an introduction and overview of Discovery Institute Academy’s new High School chemistry class from teacher Kristin Marais. Discovery Institute Academy’s high school chemistry course is a two-semester, virtual, synchronous, and lab-bsed course which integrates the fundamentals of chemistry with applicable intelligent design concepts and topics. Learn more about the course for homeschoolers at https://discoveryinstitute.academy/ch…. Discovery Institute Academy understands the importance of live interaction with exceptional teachers. We provide homeschoolers with access to live virtual classes, enabling direct engagement between students and educators. Through these interactive sessions, students actively participate, ask questions, and receive immediate feedback. This …

Experience Homeschool Chemistry With Kristin Marais & Discovery Institute Academy

Discovery Institute
June 6, 2023
Learn about the wonderful intelligent design of the chemistry behind life. Join High School Chemistry from Discovery Institute Academy in this new course for homeschool students taught by certified teacher Kristin Marais for the 2023-24 school year. Find out more about the course, and teacher Kristin Marais, at: https://discoveryinstitute.academy/ch… This course is equivalent to a standard High School Chemistry course that would typically be taken in the 11th grade. …

In Evolution Debate Intelligent Design Passes the Richard Dawkins Test

Discovery Institute
May 15, 2023
Richard Dawkins has described a test that he predicted would prove evolution, but now, mounting scientific evidence shows that the same test instead proves intelligent design.  According to Casey Luskin, scientists have sequenced a great number of whole genomes and they know that Dawkins was wrong. Every gene does not deliver “approximately the same tree of life.”

Journalist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, Jonathan Choe, Nominated For Four Emmy Awards

Choe’s Stories “Turco’s Last Stand” and “Seattle’s Unending Drug Crisis” Recognized for Excellence in News Reporting
Discovery Institute
April 25, 2023
Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that Jonathan Choe, Senior Fellow at the Center on Wealth and Poverty’s Fix Homelessness Initiative, has been nominated for four Emmy Awards by the Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Forbes: Teach the Truth and Superabundance

Frederick Hess
September 16, 2022
In Superabundance, economists Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy show just how extraordinarily better off Americans are today than we were even a few decades ago—and how remarkably our well-being has improved over time.

Former Federal Homelessness Czar Joins Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty as a Senior Fellow

Discovery Institute
March 15, 2022
Seattle – Robert Marbut, a renowned expert on homelessness, has been named to Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty as a senior fellow. “The Center on Wealth & Poverty has been a national leader in shining a hot spotlight on the flawed federal homelessness polices.” Said Marbut. “Sadly, these policies have created a homelessness crisis in the United States that has become a national disaster, with far reaching negative effects on both individuals experiencing homelessness and local communities.” A major project of the Center on Wealth & Poverty is the Fixhomelessness.org website which focuses on and reports about the root causes of homelessness and recommends public policies that address those causes, not just surface needs. The project …

‘America Lost’ Premiering Tonight on PBS World

Discovery Institute
October 27, 2020
Check out Director of Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth and Poverty Christopher Rufo's newest film tonight on PBS World. The film will air at 6 PM and again at 10 PM (pacific time). If you are unable to catch the film tonight or can't find it in your area, the film is also available for free online.