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Four Talks and Videos, Including Foresight’s Vision Weekend
By Jason Crawford
Jason has four new video interviews available, covering a wide variety of topics for progress studies. He discusses the role of memory for appreciating invisible, but crucial, historical progress, as well as the four-hour workweek, ChatGPT, and a new philosophy of progress.
The Cost of Books Keeps Falling
By J. Lund
J. details the egalitarian journey of books. Once extremely expensive, labor-intensive and elite-focused, books have steadily dropped in price and increased in accessibility, empowering and educating larger portions of society. Insodoing, a virtuous feedback loop between citizen ingenuity and progress is forged.
Science and Tech Policy Agenda (Tony Blair and Lord Hague Proposal)
by Tom Westgarth
Tom summarizes the policy agenda put forth by Tony Blair and Lord Hague to action the UK government’s stated desire to become a hub for science and technology. Proposals include ambitious government-led initiatives in citizen AI tools, healthcare, digital identification, and data storage and utility.
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