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A playbook for the next century of progress

By: Jason Crawford β€”
To build a bold, abundant future, we must reform the laws, institutions, and culture that once powered human progress.
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Progress is a grand project for humanity

By: Jason Crawford β€”
Progress offers meaning, demands virtue, and calls builders to turn bold ideas into wonders that uplift human life.
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How technocracy made us doubt progress

By: Jason Crawford β€”
The 20th century left us with fatalism, defeatism, and a hollowed-out vision of the future. Techno-humanism can restore our belief in progress.
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We used to celebrate science and innovation

By: Jason Crawford β€”
From the Brooklyn Bridge to the polio vaccine, society once honored signs of progress with parades, fireworks, and festivals.
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What if humans mastered every aspect of nature?

By: Jason Crawford β€”
A bold vision of a 10x better future where humanity has mastered biology, energy, and matter to unlock unprecedented progress.
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AI can dramatically expand human agency

By: Jason Crawford β€”
If we get AI right, it will accelerate empowerment, enabling people to learn any subject, start any business, and realize any vision.
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Problem-solving is fundamental to human nature

By: Jason Crawford β€”
Believing in the next solution is not blind optimism or even wishful thinking β€” it is a recognition that humans are problem-solving animals.
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It’s far too early to call β€œpeak ideas”

By: Jason Crawford β€”
Economic growth is driven by ideas, not resources β€” and as history shows, the well of innovation is unlikely to ever run dry.
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Predictions of resource scarcity have a fundamental flaw

By: Jason Crawford β€”
From where we stand, the true limits to growth are currently unknowable and need not affect any decisions we make today.
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We stopped believing in progress. Now, we’re stagnating.

By: Jason Crawford β€”
Have we begun to lose faith in the future? The idea of β€˜progress’ didn’t truly exist throughout the majority of human history. Most ages didn’t see history as an upward […]
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If progress has stalled, we need to know why

By: Jason Crawford β€”
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.
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Why progress was so slow, for so long

By: Jason Crawford β€”
Progress was agonizingly slow for most of human history, but the rapid progress of the last few centuries was not a fluke.
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β€œStopping climate change” is the wrong goal

By: Jason Crawford β€”
Anything that matters to humans should be under our control. The climate mattersβ€”so we should control the climate.
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Progress happens because solutions create new problems to solve

By: Jason Crawford β€”
Solutionism means fully accepting what’s in front of us and enthusiastically stepping up to meet the challenge.
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