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phil
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Welcome to @jasoncrawford.eth! Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a non-profit dedicated to progress studies. In addition, he has served as an advisor for Our World in Data and as a guest lecturer at MIT. His essay, We Need A New Philosophy of Progress, is one of the best arguments for techno-optimism that I've read: https://rootsofprogress.org/we-need-a-new-philosophy-of-progress/ He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel as part of the ongoing Silicon Valley Canon course. Reply with your questions. :)
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Drew Volpe
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A lot of innovation comes out of a very small number of places where talent and resources have coalesced (Bay Area, Boston area, Shenzhen, …). Do you think this model continues for the next 50 years or will innovation be more distributed? And is it worth trying to create more ecosystems more places?
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Jason Crawford
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I think this will continue perhaps until the point where we have some kind of VR that is so amazingly high-fidelity that it's as good as being there in person. I have no idea what that takes or when it will arrive. I would not bet against talent concentration in the near term. Is it worth trying to create ecosystems? Sure, but this is largely organic and hard to influence. Worth establishing charter cities with this kind of goal perhaps
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