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47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford

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Progress, Stagnation and Flying Cars

How can we know in the 20 first century, when we're making progress at a reasonable clip, versus when we're stagnating? You talk about this in your articles, board for progress, and the other article is progress, stagnation and flying cars. How do we keep our expectations from becoming too bias by previous predictions? My most relevant essay on this is called, i think just technological stagnation. There are a couple of ways to measure progress.

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