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    The Roots of Progress‏ @rootsofprogress 8 Sep 2019
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    Hello new followers! What are you interested in / excited about in the area of progress studies? What would you like to hear about?

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      1. The Roots of Progress‏ @rootsofprogress 8 Sep 2019
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        PS: This account mostly tweets blog posts (plus the occasional like/reply). You can also get the blog posts by email:https://rootsofprogress.org/subscribe 

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      2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 8 Sep 2019
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        Translate things into "physical" quantities like energy consumption and human population, zoom out, and get macro trends. How has energy consumption per person changed over time? Where have we had the biggest efficiency increases?

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      3. The Roots of Progress‏ @rootsofprogress 8 Sep 2019
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        Some info on that here, chart doesn't go back very far though:https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-and-changing-energy-sources#per-capita-energy-consumption …

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      2. Andrew Ruiz‏ @then_there_was 8 Sep 2019
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        Whether productivity has actually improved as a result of technology. Are people still working the same amount of hours they were a few decades ago? If so, how come? How did other, older civilizations build large cities? Was homelessness a problem back then as well?

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      3. Andrew Ruiz‏ @then_there_was 8 Sep 2019
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        Are people healthier today than they were a century ago? Are lifespans increasing everywhere or decreasing in certain spots? Have we improved the way we teach students? Are we hitting the edge case for how fast a human being can learn with technology? What is possible?

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      2. Ник Сёркл‏ @n_kruglikov 8 Sep 2019
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        1. How did humanity transit to Iron Age without iron tools? 2. Medieval Age looks like a total waste of time in terms of progress. Was it?

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      3. The Roots of Progress‏ @rootsofprogress 8 Sep 2019
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        1. I'm not sure but I'd guess with bronze tools! Bronze was the hardest metal known before iron. Also stone tools. 2. AD 500–1000 was pretty stagnant in Europe. After that there was slow progress. E.g., windmills developed around 12th century I think

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      2. MMT=The Present, LVT=The Future‏ @mmt_lvt 8 Sep 2019
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        How geography has affected progress

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      3. The Roots of Progress‏ @rootsofprogress 8 Sep 2019
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        Some thoughts on that in my review of *Guns, Germs, and Steel*:https://rootsofprogress.org/continental-axes-and-the-roots-of-progress …

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      1. Indraneel Deshpande‏ @Indraneeldesh 8 Sep 2019
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        A distinction between the progress made in the world of atoms(energy, materials) and the world of bits(software,automation) and their effects on productivity.

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