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Jason Crawford: What is progress and how do we get more of it?

Oct 11, 2021

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Progress Studies

05:14

Progress Studies - Is There a Different Model for Procuring Space?

03:31

Progress Studies - Are We in a Stagnation?

04:09

Introduction

4min

Progress Studies

5min

What Is It That Rites People About This Idea?

2min

Progress Studies - Are We in a Stagnation?

4min

The Stagnation Hypothesis

4min

How to Ride a Bicycle

5min

The Importance of Composibility

3min

Nuclear a Technology - The Most Terribly Destroying Weapon the World Had Ever Seen

5min

The Future of Fusion Research

4min

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Progress Studies - Is There a Different Model for Procuring Space?

4min

11.

Agricultural Research Stations - A Comparative Case Study

3min

12.

Innovations, You Know, Aren't Just About Prizes

3min

13.

Can We Crowd Fun Advance Market Commitments?

2min

14.

Getting Paid for Backing a Fail of Project

2min

15.

The Weirdness Barrier to Science Funding

2min

16.

Is There a Way to Celebrate Progress?

5min

17.

We Need a New Philosophy of Progress for the 20th Century

3min

Jason Crawford is the founder of Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. Jason is a prolific writer on the history of science and technology and is one of the leading figures in the Progress Studies community. In this conversation, we discuss what causes progress; why it's not universally popular; what the history of bicycle tells us about why advances in technology sometimes take so long; why the future people imagined in the 1960s didn't happen; and much more.

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