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
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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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I agree with the effect that Steve Jurvetson discusses, but I really think that Peter Thiel's more broad identification with systemic dysfunction in society is worth looking at. I kept hearing RE: Climate Change that Americans are good in a crisis, and here we are in a crisis...
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Seems to me that this is broadly right about the supply side of ideas, our educational and scientific resources and tools, and doesn't speak about the insanely broken systems that slow us down and kill ideas. The idea kill ratio in certain fields is like nearly 100% for decades!
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