If you are reading this, you probably have the same feeling as me: We are stuck。 Our political stagnation is one. Beyond Washington, we guarantee that the true change is almost impossible. It can only be seen by everyone. However, as our ruling classes are calcified and our economy suffers, it is not clear how much we are hindered in terms of technical aspects. We made a bomb, landed a man on the moon, put a computer in all pockets, and made a terrible progress with AI. But these progress is not all similar. Emulation In the future in the virtual world, we have forgotten what a noticeable different future looks like.
This is the starting point Boom: End of foam and stagnation,, The new book of techno philosopher Tobias Hoover and Burn Hobart has no small ambitions, like the giants they respect. Some science, some history, some philosophy, boom In order to build a better future, we will look at the greatness of the Western past and provide not only new diagnosis of MAL neglect, but also rewarding roads. But you need to forget everything you know.
Is it “reasonable” … is it bad? Yes, I insist boom. What else does it mean to be reasonable besides the research cost analysis? When we seek the highest possible results with as low as possible, we have developed almost obsessive -compulsive obsession with safety. We saw it exploded in culture in COVID as much as it was built into the financial market. In both cases, it often brings accurate disasters that are often trying to avoid.
Attachment to safety distorts what vision teethAnd what can Ban. We are the virtual reality of Facebook and the convenience of Amazon Prime and Uber think We will live in the future. However, what we are looking at in this modern technology is just the Mi Karo, a gradual progress that will make a slight change in good changes. As a result, pizza delivery is a little faster, easier and cheaper, but we order pizza. This is fun at first, but even if you don’t see it at all, you feel that the stagnation is set immediately.
Somewhat intuitive, boom Only the risks that can solve the problem of safety are claimed, and the central “bubbles” of the book are introduced. As you know, the real estate market crashed in 2008.
But bubbles may be so good, So。 They may represent “collective delusions” (for example, housing prices are always rising), but they can also be a “collective vision expression”: Manhattan Project, Apollo Mission. , Semiconductor, flacking, and even the cryptographic revolution -everything works like a financial bubble, boom I claim. Each project summarizes a very talented, talented foresight, a small group. He persuaded him to go to other worlds with their crazy ideas through pure religion to the future, which is different from the past. The seemingly unreasonable tapping of their risks opened their talents, capital, and expectations, unlike the housing market. The result is a wide range of accumulation. The development of the Manhattan Project computing has opened the way to Apollo, which has invested in the basics of the Technical Revolution.
“Optimism can be a self -realistic prophecy.” boom I claim.
The meat of this book is investigating that the biggest innovation of the 20th century, that is, the true innovation has formed the United States and the world. Probably a little unstable for the Ray leader, boom It is worth reading only with these exciting and detailed history. You feel that the author’s praise is shining with the author’s praise.
But this is not a nostalgic mourning. So what is returned goods? boom Do you like “escape”?
Most of us are not high -tech geniuses or wealthy financial pitchers. We cannot drop everything and put everything in danger. boom Identify things that can jump in the future. “”On the superficial, technical, secular and nature, excessive rational, each effort indicates basic longing or exploration for transcendental, RED, and salvation. Cultural issues require cultural answers. And it’s here, probably inadvertently, that’s it boom Deliver a grassroots message far beyond silicon valley.
All of these technical stories about the bubble to explain what the American pioneer understood hundreds of years ago, the illiterate deck hand when he came on a journey to the unknown was a woman I knew that even children and children knew what they knew when they left to settle. The bubble culture is not only the great man who built it, but also the basics of the Western world, as well as everyone who participated in the middle and intentionally participated. We are the culture of adventures, our own spiritual confidence, what we are doing, or even when it is symbolically ignored (or especially) That’s what we are doing. And whether it’s secular or religious, its confidence cannot be cleared without a serious belief in answering a higher call. It’s no wonder that the United States loves emerging companies and losers. They are the people who built the United States. (Related: Laying a playbook to end the acquisition of Marxism in the United States)
This is not only lost in the top hierarchy of R & D, but modern levels equivalent to settlers and pioneers: average person who is seeking a limit to his station for the future. 。 At the individual level, we often prioritize the current comfort over the risk of better future, and cannot see the stagnant festivals around us, as the frogs boil slowly. The answer is to refuse all the current situation that is not always observable.
The answer may come from Elon Musk, or something with a foresight in the future, or not. but boom It is worth reading for all Americans who feel stuck and cannot explain the reason completely. The reader not only takes pictures of how stuck we are, but can also get a very important kick on the ass to do something about it.
The future must be better than it is now. The first step to reach there is that you have no other options.
