Best Futurism & technology and society Videos
「Futurism & technology and society」下面有116部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象:入门2部,适合还没学过的人;进阶4部,适合已经懂术语的人;普通向110部,按兴趣就能看;更硬的0部,留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是演讲,所以它们的共同点是一位讲者把一个判断讲完,例子是为了撑住这个判断。常出现的频道包括TED、Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell、Isaac Arthur。目录给这个主题划的范围是:Futurism: future of technology, transhumanism, technological progress, long-term thinking, singularity, effects of technology on society, social media impact, TED-style big ideas, techno-optimism and criticism.如果只看三部,就从《We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing》开始,它负责把问题讲出画面;然后看《Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)》,换一种讲法或例子;最后看《Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)》,留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开,顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月,不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明,用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看,把引用当成只是拿来举例,把批评留下来对照,不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。

We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
CGP Grey narrates an animated adaptation of Nick Bostrom's Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
A DevGAMM talk by Jonathan Blow arguing that civilizations can lose technological capability and that software quality is already deteriorating.

Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)
Jonathan Blow's DevGAMM 2019 talk argues that software knowledge is being lost between generations and that growing layers of abstraction could lead to a decline in technological civilization.

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)
James Mickens of Harvard gives a funny lecture at HBS's Future Assembly arguing that blockchains are a very bad idea.

The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
Technology Connections explains how LED traffic lights, which do not melt snow, drew complaints and were blamed for accidents.

Peter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."
Peter Thiel is the first guest on Eric Weinstein's The Portal, in a nearly three-hour conversation about technological stagnation, institutional failure and the link between growth and violence.

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
Technosociologist Zeynep Tufekci argues that the machine-learning systems used to serve ads also decide what political and social information people see.

Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?
CGP Grey explains how ideas spread like germs, and why content that triggers outrage spreads fastest, using a study on what makes online content viral.

Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter
Joseph Tainter lectures at a 2010 sustainability conference on why complex societies such as Rome collapse.

College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"
Neil Postman's 1997 lecture at College of DuPage, based on his book, argues that Americans treat technology as a national religion and depend on it to solve larger human problems.

A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
Kurzgesagt makes a selfish case for improving the world, arguing that helping people far away raises prosperity and innovation for everyone, including yourself.

Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn, creator of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, explains how small contributions from many people online can digitize books.

Don't Be the Last Person to Die
CGP Grey argues that aging and death are a problem worth defeating, using a short animated essay.

Civilizations at the End of Time: Iron Stars
An Isaac Arthur episode on civilizations in the far future, past the Black Hole Era.

How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
Kurzgesagt explains stellar engines such as the Shkadov thruster and Caplan thruster, which could move the Sun and solar system across the galaxy over millions of years to avoid hazards and reach new regions.

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson's TED talk on public shaming on Twitter, centered on Justine Sacco and others whose lives were upended by online mobs.

Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED
Skateboarding pioneer Rodney Mullen talks about how the open skate community and its environments drive the invention of new tricks out of pure passion.

How to Enjoy the End of the World
A Virginia Tech presentation by Sid Smith about collapse, fossil fuels and overshoot, arguing that industrial civilization faces a decline and how one might live with that.

Civilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming
An Isaac Arthur episode on civilizations in the dark, post-stellar universe, including black hole farming, accretion disks and the Penrose process as energy sources.

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
Charles Stross's 34C3 talk on how science fiction gets the future wrong.

Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces
Bret Victor's talk proposing a new kind of maker space built for seeing and understanding a project's behavior: inside it, across time and across possibilities.

Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS
Louis C.K.

Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]
Andreas Antonopoulos explains how to tell Bitcoin-style blockchains from corporate blockchain hype.

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega of Hundred Rabbits talks about low-power, offline computing, esoteric languages and the Uxn virtual machine, informed by years of sailing the Pacific.