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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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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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”

