Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider
Welcome to the Future
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"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future"
--@mattwridley nails it
Ben Reinhardttwitter.com
My current favorite theory about what's gone wrong since the 1970s is that we stopped innovating to maximize performance and started optimizing for energy (and resource) efficiency.
Imagine all the cool shit we're gonna build once we have abundant sources of clean energy...
In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons.
@yishan set them straight.
World's Hardest Problems
Sustainability + Human Development Is the food we eat scalable, sustainable, healthy, nutritious and tasty? Is the air we breathe clean? Is the water we drink pure? Is there a way to produce energy that is relatively abundant, cheap and clean? Is there a way to reverse or mitigate climate chan...
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#264 - Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast
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