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Retrofuturism Is Futurism Done Well

etiennefd19 May 2022 17:08 UTC

6 points

0 comments7 min readPF link

(etiennefd.substack.com)

The Terrapunk Manifesto—a Solarpunk alternative

Jack Nasjaq18 May 2022 20:59 UTC

20 points

6 comments10 min readPF link

(nasjaq.substack.com)

Defending Dynamism and Getting Stuff Done

Virginia Postrel18 May 2022 17:54 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 min readPF link

(vpostrel.substack.com)

From the Archives: Lessons From Cotton’s Slow-Motion Robot Takeover (with a bonus material from 1928!)

Virginia Postrel18 May 2022 17:54 UTC

5 points

0 comments7 min readPF link

(vpostrel.substack.com)

Excerpts from “The Terrapunk Manifesto”

jasoncrawford18 May 2022 17:51 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

When should an idea that smells like research be a startup?

Benjamin Reinhardt18 May 2022 0:26 UTC

7 points

1 comment10 min readPF link

(parpa.substack.com)

Interview with me on Hear this Idea with Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti

jasoncrawford17 May 2022 21:05 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readPF link

Podcast: Marc Andreessen on the future of innovation

AdamThierer17 May 2022 17:36 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

The Countercultural Optimism of Progress Studies

Paul Matzko17 May 2022 17:11 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

Book Review: Owning the Earth, a history of land ownership

ejz17 May 2022 14:15 UTC

5 points

1 comment3 min readPF link

Built With Bio Conference Review

tsungxu15 May 2022 23:56 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readPF link

(www.tsungxu.com)

Nature of progress in Deep Learning

karpathy15 May 2022 2:43 UTC

8 points

4 comments2 min readPF link

Progress studies as an (incomplete) “idea machine”

jasoncrawford13 May 2022 14:14 UTC

8 points

6 comments2 min readPF link

The Two Most Tragic Moments in History

etiennefd12 May 2022 20:15 UTC

5 points

9 comments8 min readPF link

(etiennefd.substack.com)

Draft for comment: Ideas getting harder to find does not imply stagnation

jasoncrawford12 May 2022 17:01 UTC

6 points

18 comments22 min readPF link

Where are the robotic bricklayers?

briancpotter12 May 2022 12:22 UTC

10 points

2 comments10 min readPF link

(constructionphysics.substack.com)

Why doesn’t progress seem to propagate?

ejz11 May 2022 22:53 UTC

6 points

5 comments2 min readPF link

Wait, Environmentalists Are Anti-Technology?

Alex Trembath11 May 2022 21:30 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readPF link

How we get vision wrong.

James Rosen-Birch11 May 2022 18:57 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readPF link

Event: JMI Tech Summit Miami September 15-16

andrea11 May 2022 6:39 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

Intellectual Property Is Worse Than You Think

Maxwell Tabarrok10 May 2022 22:19 UTC

7 points

4 comments4 min readPF link

Walt Disney documentary

daltner10 May 2022 14:53 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readPF link

Book Review: Emperors of Chocolate

daltner9 May 2022 23:15 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readPF link

Story of King Gillette

daltner9 May 2022 23:04 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readPF link

Sears Book Recommendation

daltner9 May 2022 23:04 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readPF link

[Question] Why did Intellectual Ventures’s thesis about patents fail?

jasoncrawford9 May 2022 17:41 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readPF link

[Question] Why is there no equivalent of the VC industry, but for patentable inventions instead of startups?

jasoncrawford9 May 2022 17:31 UTC

7 points

7 comments1 min readPF link

George Westinghouse Documentary

daltner9 May 2022 4:06 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readPF link

Why I Admire Adolphus Busch

daltner9 May 2022 4:01 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readPF link

Pre-publication draft of “Death is the Default: Why building is our safest way forward”

Gena Gorlin9 May 2022 4:01 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readPF link

(docs.google.com)

Book Review: HJ Heinz Biography

daltner9 May 2022 0:14 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readPF link

Book Review: The Kelloggs

daltner9 May 2022 0:14 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readPF link

Book Review: Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything

daltner9 May 2022 0:14 UTC

2 points

2 comments2 min readPF link

[Question] Was agricultural progress a prerequisite for the development of the mechanized textile industry?

benlandautaylor8 May 2022 17:47 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readPF link

The Anatomists

LauraMazer8 May 2022 16:44 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readPF link

On Great Contexts vs. Great Groups

andrew8 May 2022 16:43 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readPF link

The lure of technocracy

jasoncrawford6 May 2022 20:07 UTC

4 points

5 comments4 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

How can we be objective?

Stuart Buck5 May 2022 4:06 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readPF link

The Curse of Plenty

mattclancy5 May 2022 4:06 UTC

5 points

8 comments4 min readPF link

It’s time to build: A New World’s Fair

Cameron Wiese5 May 2022 0:03 UTC

7 points

5 comments5 min readPF link

(www.cameronwiese.com)

Effective Altruism and Progress Studies

MarkLutter4 May 2022 23:11 UTC

5 points

7 comments2 min readPF link

New Industries Come From Crazy People

benlandautaylor4 May 2022 19:05 UTC

6 points

2 comments8 min readPF link

(palladiummag.com)

What are the best examples of catastrophic resource shortages?

jasoncrawford4 May 2022 14:37 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readPF link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Event on “Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science”

AdamThierer3 May 2022 14:40 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

Bombs, Brains, and Science

ericgilliam3 May 2022 2:07 UTC

13 points

11 comments11 min readPF link

(freaktakes.substack.com)

New Governance Frameworks for Emerging Tech Sectors

AdamThierer3 May 2022 0:33 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readPF link

Guarantee Funds / Leveraged Philanthropy

Anton Howes29 Apr 2022 17:56 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readPF link

When and how have we made progress against misinformation?

jasoncrawford29 Apr 2022 3:26 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

The concluding session of The Story of Industrial Civilization

jasoncrawford28 Apr 2022 16:35 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readPF link

Cunning plans to fix the world can win

John Myers27 Apr 2022 19:10 UTC

2 points

0 comments9 min readPF link

(ziggurat.substack.com)