215. The Theory of Accelerating Change
Futurists often suggest that technology grows exponentially more powerful over time, but there may be good reasons to doubt this notion, & very good reasons not to wait around for the future tech they promise is imminent.
Climate Change Links
Sunrise Movement - https://www.sunrisemovement.org/
The Green New Deal Network - https://www.greennewdealnetwork.org/
Sierra Club - https://www.sierraclub.org/take-action
350.org - https://350.org/
Links for the Curious
Philosophical Analysis of Dark Souls, by Gemsbok - • Philosophical Analysis of Dark Souls
118. The Antikythera Mechanism | THUNK - • 118. The Antikythera Mechanism | THUNK
Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot - Issue 65: In Plain Sight - Nautilus - https://nautil.us/issue/65/in-plain-s...
View of The 21st Century Singularity and its Big History Implications: A re-analysis - https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/ar...
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elgans After 10 Years - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQx...
THE CALIFORNIAN IDEOLOGY by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron - http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/...
Tomorrow’s World - Office of the Future (BBC, 1969) - • Tomorrow's World - Office of the Future 16...
What the 21st Century office of the future looked like in the 1960s - https://workplaceinsight.net/what-the...
Futurism Needs More Women (Eveleth, 2015) - https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
Kids in the 1960's predict what the year 2000 will be like - • Kids in the 1960's predict what the year 2...
1980's prediction of 2020 - • Video
Breakthrough in fusion energy: Is abundant low carbon energy within reach? - https://www.orfonline.org/expert-spea...
artima - The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work - https://www.artima.com/articles/the-s...
Can Technology Reverse Climate Change? (IEEE, 2018) - https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-technol...
Overconfidence in new technologies can influence decision-making - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
Does Technology Drive History? (Smith, 1994) - https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/p...
The Social in the Machine: How Historians of Technology Look Beyond the Object | Perspectives on History | AHA - https://www.historians.org/publicatio...
Does Technological Change Shape Historical Change? | by Chris Neels | Predict - / does-technological-change-shape-historical...
Do Machines Make History? (Heilbroner, 1967) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3101719
Countdown to the Singularity - https://www.diamandis.com/blog/countd...
Where Americans Stand on Energy & Climate - https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads...
https://www.wired.com/story/italy-fut...
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19900...
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