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S3 Ep. 5 Jason Crawford – Narrative decentralization and the future of progress

Boundaryless Conversations Podcast

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Introduction

The pace of technological progress has slowed down somewhat in the last 50 years or so. Why are we seeing a relatively slower pace? I have three main hypotheses. One is just growing layers of bureaucracy and regulation that we have accumulated over the last several decades. Two is the way that we have centralized and bureaucratized the funding mechanisms for science and research. And three is the fundamental philosophic and cultural attitudes towards progress itself.

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