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 don't think this is *all* local perception — what of e.g. @patrickc & @michael_nielsen's take?https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/575665/ …
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When you ask physicists to rate the value of physics prizes, one can excuse them for seeing the past more vividly since: 1) old discoveries have had more time to percolate out as foundational blocks of other discoveries 2) they learned about them in school 3) they don't compete
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