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The Forgotten Stage of Human Progress
A friend of mine recently felt dizzy and went to a US urgent care facility for blood tests. They were inconclusive and so he was sent to the nearby emergency room, which proceeded to do the same blood tests over again, because they were not able to access the urgent care facility's test results in their computer system. This was just plain wasted w... See more
Ben Goertzel • We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity
Our slow growth is a puzzle. We have generated huge amounts of useful knowledge. We have made it easier and easier to access this knowledge from anywhere in the world. We have Jstor and Google Books to dig through existing knowledge, and easy data analysis with Excel. We can collaborate with people all over the world through Zoom and Slack. And mor... See more
Work in Progress • Page not found | Works in Progress
When we think about other technologists selling consumer products, from Henry Ford (a close friend of Edison’s) to Steve Jobs, we see the model that has emerged. The lonely inventor is replaced by the team. The goal is not to make basic scientific discoveries but to apply science to products. The effort was closely related to the market, and the br
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Drugs that save lives, like technologies that transform industries, often begin with lone inventors championing crazy ideas. But large groups of people are needed to translate those ideas into products that work. When teams with the means to develop those ideas reject them, as every large research organization rejected Miller’s piranha, those break
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