Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

Opinion | We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper

anyone who prioritizes the wellbeing of the “future of humanity” in the abstract over the dignity and care of individuals in the present cannot claim that they truly care about people

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

Hans Rosling • 6 highlights

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

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Progress Isn't Natural

Joel Mokyr theatlantic.com

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Research Questions That Could Have a Big Social Impact, Organised by Discipline

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Why Flying Cars Are an Impossible Dream

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

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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...

Alec Stapp

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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

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