The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Technological frontiers are moments when innovation allows a human population to make more, or do more, or grow more, than they did before the innovation occurred.
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useful and imperfect simplification may be that technology has mostly continued to do what it has done: expand the range of human choices. Most things are more accessible to more people than at any other point in human history. In the process, we're finding out how people handle that ability. The results are certainly mixed. As somebody who thinks ... See more
From stone tools to smartphones, this virtuous cycle of innovation expands and compounds what it means to be human over time.