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

Where We Go Next

CHAPTER

The Attitude Shift Toward Progress in the Twenty-First Century

There was a major attitude shift towards progress in the twentieth century. People were more sceptical of anything that smelled like progress. And i think, you know, about 50 years later, we've started to reap some of the bitter fruits of that. The fundamental way I see this is that these deep attitudes are growing up through education and so on. Especially in this miluia of Mila Kunis' 'The Power Of Women', which airs tonight at 10pm on BBC1.

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