"I want all of us to build a world where we in the future and our descendants are as fantastically well off compared to today as we are compared to the past."
In this conversation, we talk with Jason Crawford, the founder of Roots of Progress. Roots of Progress is an organization promoting the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of human progress.
We talk with Jason about the three layers of progress, how much better the world is now vs. 100 years ago, the space race, knowledge creation, and so much more!
Take a listen to this episode to understand the importance of understanding the role progress has played in our past and how important it is in building the future.
Chapters
00:00 Welcome to Build The Future
02:42 Why study the roots of progress?
07:50 Financing and organizing new discoveries
10:08 Institutions, rules and regulation
11:51 Culture and prescriptive optimism
15:36 Progress includes tackling risks
19:20 Learning from cultural movements
20:29 What the space race can teach us
26:49 Teaching the history of technology
29:17 Stories that make building feel possible
30:39 Communities and the creation of knowledge
37:38 The Haber-Bosch process and modern agriculture
Links
Thanks for listening to this episode of the Build the Future Podcast. This is a project by World's Fair Co. You can learn more at worldsfair.org.
