Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

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Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck

Patrick Collison theatlantic.com

Johanna

Building a 21st century interface for science

Oliver Hunt olly.so

Joey DeBruin

World After Capital

Albert Wenger • 2 highlights

worldaftercapital.org

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Malthus was wrong. We make MORE food than ever with LESS land than ever. Because we have one inexhaustible resource— Human ingenuity.

Josh Wolfe

twitter.com

andrea

Why Has Nuclear Power Been a Flop?

rootsofprogress.org rootsofprogress.org

Johanna

What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist

Saffron Huang letterstoayoungtechnologist.com

Tanuj

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling • 6 highlights

amazon.com

Cover of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagine that the evolution of your life or our culture is like a pregnancy: It needs to reach its full term. Just as a child isn’t ready to be born after five months of gestation, the New Earth we’re

Rob Brezsny • Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia

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Warpcast

LLeo Nasskau

Takes that aged badly: see this from 1937 the problem with our modern world is all of these newfangled toilets and umbrellas get rid of the books!