Human Progress in the Age of Intelligence & Networks
How does progress happen and how do we accelerate it?
Human progress is not inevitable. It's discovered, debated, and built. This lens is a collection of essays from leading thinkers on how societies learn, innovate, and expand the boundaries of human flourishing. Taken together, these works sketch a blueprint for the next chapter: a world where human and machine intelligence converge to unlock possibilities without precedent.
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Start Here: Nature of Progress

  • Progress studies - Wikipedia

  • We Need a New Science of Progress

  • Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'?

  • We need a new philosophy of progress


  • Moral Voices: Civic, Cultural, Spiritual Leaders

  • The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama | The 14th Dalai Lama

  • His Holiness Pope Francis | Why the only future worth building includes everyone | TED Talks

  • Participation of the Holy Father Francis at the G7 in Borgo Egnazia (Puglia) (14 June 2024)


  • Investors & Capital Allocators

  • The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz

  • The Read Write Own Manifesto

  • The World After Capital


  • AI Founders

  • The Intelligence Age

  • Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

  • Moore's Law for Everything


  • Archived Technocratic Visions (Before November 2022 ChatGPT First Release)

  • Preface | The World After Capital

  • Why Software Is Eating the World

  • What happened to the future? - Founders Fund


  • Historic Philosophical Works

  • Advances of the Human Mind

  • The wonderful century : the age of new ideas in science and invention


  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth (The Princeton Economic Series of the Western World)

  • 1976 Whittingham Paper on Li-ion Intercalation