Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
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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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
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Research Questions That Could Have a Big Social Impact, Organised by Discipline
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In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons.
@yishan set them straight.
once we had machines to do labor, we could afford to stop treating humans like machines.
Packy McCormick • The Morality of Having Kids in a Magical, Maybe Simulated World
