Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

Why Flying Cars Are an Impossible Dream

(1) New Working Paper: the fundamental driver of growth in modern economies, Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is linear, not exponential. This is a paper I did not expect to write...

Thomas Philippon twitter.com

Johanna

World After Capital

Albert Wenger • 2 highlights

worldaftercapital.org

kev

Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck

Patrick Collison theatlantic.com

Johanna

"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider

rob hardy

What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist

Saffron Huang letterstoayoungtechnologist.com

Tanuj

WTF Happened In 1971?

wtfhappenedin1971.com

Johanna

I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress

Ted Gioia open.substack.com

andrea

Narrative Slipstream Effects

Ribbon Farm ribbonfarm.com

Sixian