Believing that we'll have a future worth fighting for is like Pascal's Wager. If we're wrong, we won't be around to care. And pessimism isn't very constructive. Or fun.
Missing from his list is improvements is governance. It's so weird that "technologists" rarely even think about collaborative decision making. When in fact it's one of our most important technologies.
To cite one recent exciting example. Project Warp Speed betting on a portfolio of potential vaccines. Applying the smarts of NPV towards policy goals. Whereas other nations pre-picked winners, like most procurement is traditionally done.
Such a high visibility success will lead to wider adoption of better risk management strategies.
Adjacent is Musk's $100m X-Prize bet for carbon capture. So great. For future, some sizeable fraction of all R&D should be done like this.
> Optimism is not utopian. It’s protopian -- a slow march toward incremental betterment.
So much cringe. The jargon spewing technophilia of Mondo 2000, Wired, Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, so many others was tired in the 1990s. (Remember "Tired vs Wired"? Gag.)
Believing that we'll have a future worth fighting for is like Pascal's Wager. If we're wrong, we won't be around to care. And pessimism isn't very constructive. Or fun.
Missing from his list is improvements is governance. It's so weird that "technologists" rarely even think about collaborative decision making. When in fact it's one of our most important technologies.
To cite one recent exciting example. Project Warp Speed betting on a portfolio of potential vaccines. Applying the smarts of NPV towards policy goals. Whereas other nations pre-picked winners, like most procurement is traditionally done.
Such a high visibility success will lead to wider adoption of better risk management strategies.
Adjacent is Musk's $100m X-Prize bet for carbon capture. So great. For future, some sizeable fraction of all R&D should be done like this.
> Optimism is not utopian. It’s protopian -- a slow march toward incremental betterment.
So much cringe. The jargon spewing technophilia of Mondo 2000, Wired, Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, so many others was tired in the 1990s. (Remember "Tired vs Wired"? Gag.)