Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet,
and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?
River Dakinix.com
Future Narratives
viz.envisioning.io
Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy
youtube.comProgress is challenging, not due to a lack of imagination but due to the lack of a blank canvas Maybe Mars is the blank canvas we need to bring us all together
Tim Urban • #264 - Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
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
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
techDetector | Radar
techdetector.de
Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?
Construction Physicsconstructionphysics.substack.com