Debating the fundament of failed futurism
@PeterThiel published a provocative book review of The Decadent Society. For most of the 21st-Century, he has been puzzled by the apparent stagnation of progress, in science, technology and the economy.
We disagree:https://flic.kr/p/2iszfE1
I think Eric Weinstein made a good point in Episode 1 of the Portal when he noted that an enormous amount of the contribution in many fields of science and technology have come from physics thinking and physics minds populating new orchards and getting all the low hanging fruit
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@EricRWeinstein that if you actually did an accounting on the outsize effect that physics has had, even recently, on the modern world, that it would be enormous, by far the plurality. They invented pretty much modern mole bio, much of CS, data science, and so on. -
@EricRWeinstein that you seriously undersell it if you look at, for example, only particle physics -- the economic impact of the discovery of the quark is perhaps 0, whereas CERN created the conditions to launch the Web, etc.
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