An idea or execution? Presentation from the Warsaw Growth Summit 2017
Continue ReadingThe Future of Humanity (by Nick Bostrom)
The article sketches an overview of some recent attempts to arrive at a realistic mode of futuristic thought, and it offers a brief discussion of four families of scenarios for humanity’s future: extinction, recurrent collapse, plateau, and posthumanity.
Continue ReadingCognitive Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert Simon’s Vision of the Future
Inspired by Simon’s 1960 paper, article weaves many other strands into the tapestry, from classical discussions of the division of labor to present-day evolutionary psychology.
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