Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs
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Research Questions That Could Have a Big Social Impact, Organised by Discipline
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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!
Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to industrial-era efficiency metrics (units/hour, machine uptime), to the nebulous productivity measures of knowledge work. Each evolution has moved us further from human-scaled, naturally bounded... See more