A playbook for the next century of progress Freethink By: Jason Crawford 15 October 2025 at 22:41 To build a bold, abundant future, we must reform the laws, institutions, and culture that once powered human progress.
Progress is a grand project for humanity Freethink By: Jason Crawford 7 October 2025 at 21:00 Progress offers meaning, demands virtue, and calls builders to turn bold ideas into wonders that uplift human life.
How technocracy made us doubt progress Freethink By: Jason Crawford 30 September 2025 at 21:00 The 20th century left us with fatalism, defeatism, and a hollowed-out vision of the future. Techno-humanism can restore our belief in progress.
We used to celebrate science and innovation Freethink By: Jason Crawford 10 September 2025 at 21:00 From the Brooklyn Bridge to the polio vaccine, society once honored signs of progress with parades, fireworks, and festivals.
What if humans mastered every aspect of nature? Freethink By: Jason Crawford 19 August 2025 at 21:11 A bold vision of a 10x better future where humanity has mastered biology, energy, and matter to unlock unprecedented progress.
AI can dramatically expand human agency Freethink By: Jason Crawford 15 July 2025 at 19:00 If we get AI right, it will accelerate empowerment, enabling people to learn any subject, start any business, and realize any vision.
Problem-solving is fundamental to human nature Freethink By: Jason Crawford 25 June 2025 at 21:00 Believing in the next solution is not blind optimism or even wishful thinking β it is a recognition that humans are problem-solving animals.
Itβs far too early to call βpeak ideasβ Freethink By: Jason Crawford 18 June 2025 at 21:00 Economic growth is driven by ideas, not resources β and as history shows, the well of innovation is unlikely to ever run dry.
Predictions of resource scarcity have a fundamental flaw Freethink By: Jason Crawford 2 June 2025 at 19:00 From where we stand, the true limits to growth are currently unknowable and need not affect any decisions we make today.
We stopped believing in progress. Now, weβre stagnating. Freethink By: Jason Crawford 2 June 2025 at 16:00 Have we begun to lose faith in the future? The idea of βprogressβ didnβt truly exist throughout the majority of human history. Most ages didnβt see history as an upward [β¦]
If progress has stalled, we need to know why Freethink By: Jason Crawford 22 May 2025 at 20:57 We need to figure out what drives progress, what might cause it to slow down or stop, and what, if anything, we can do to re-accelerate it.