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This 1959 ad shows the flying-car future we were promised

Sunday: The Story of Industrial Civilization, Session 8

The Roots of Progress has been recognized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit

San Diego community meetup / happy hour, December 1

The poetry of progress

Why old stoves that last 100 years are worse than modern ones

Austin events with The Roots of Progress, November 4–6

The role of progress in defending liberalism

Interview: Idea Machines with Ben Reinhardt

Vox on progress studies: “one of the more intriguing intellectual movements out there”

How factories were made safe

Session 5 of The Story of Industrial Civilization

The Roots of Progress is now a nonprofit organization

Why I'm a proud solutionist (in MIT Tech Review)

Winston Churchill predicted artificial wombs and lab-grown meat

Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?

How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste

Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?

We need a career path for invention

Why has nuclear been a flop? Also: research assistant wanted!

Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

I'm writing a book! And hosting a discussion series on it

“Pump” Carpenter and the grain binder

A dashboard for progress

How to end stagnation?

Exponential growth is the baseline

Clarifications on tech stagnation

Technological stagnation: Why I came around

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