Biggest new ideas entering the world by POTUS era Carter: The PC Reagan1: Neoliberalism Reagan2: “Communism doesn’t work” GHWB: the web Clinton1: Amazon Clinton2: Google GWB1: Peak US GWB2: Social media Obama 1: Bitcoin Obama 2: Software is eating the world Trump 1: Weirding
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Interesting that these were all emergent big ideas that represent complex systems going through autopoietic evolutions. Specific humans contributed pieces, and language to talk about them, but overall, the history of ideas kinda took on a life of its own after ww2
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Weirding is not an idea so much as the stack of accumulating ideas going through a spookiness refactor. Like “hey, let’s rewrite everything we know in the form of COBOL code as quantum computing code”
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Carter: Global Human Rights
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Eisenhower should be remembered for the Federal Highway Act, too. Though I suppose federally supported mobilization of the military is peak military industry.
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Not a new idea though... German autobahn was origin, and I mean, the idea there was just... better roads. Goes back to Rome etc.
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