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Technological Stagnation and Science Fiction
The following two videos pair well together. In the first, Tyler Cowen argues (in a TEDx talk) that we are in a period of technological stagnation. In the second, Neal Stephenson (in an interview at MIT) suggests that a new more utopian type of science fiction might help to shake us out of this malaise.
Tyler Cowen - The Great Stagnation
Neal Stephenson -- The Hieroglyph Project
Tyler Cowen - The Great Stagnation
Neal Stephenson -- The Hieroglyph Project
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