Progress Studies
how do we make progress?
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Progress Studies
In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons.
@yishan set them straight.
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!
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling • 6 highlights
amazon.com
Progress 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
a good reminder that all innovation is initially resisted
Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more