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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 May 2019
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      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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 May 2019
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      Let’s rewind further, biggest ideas by presidential administration going back to ww2 Ford: Globalization and automation Nixon: Culture war Johnson: Modern civil rights Kennedy: Apollo Eisenhower: military-industrial complex Truman: Modern computing

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 May 2019
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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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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 May 2019
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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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        2. Tamara‏ @tltroup 31 May 2019
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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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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 31 May 2019
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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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        1. Surly Macaroon‏ @FrederickLittl3 31 May 2019
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          Carter: Global Human Rights

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