[Updated: March 2022]
I was speaking at a conference recently and discussing my life’s work, which for 30 years has been focused on the importance of innovation and intellectual battles over what we mean progress. I put together up a short list of some things I have written over the last few years on this topic and thought I would just re-post them here. I will try to keep this regularly updated, at least for a few years.
UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE WE FACE:
- Defending Innovation Against Attacks from All Sides (November 2021)
- How to Get the Future We Were Promised (January 2022)
- The Radicalization of Modern Tech Criticism (April 2019)
- Is It ‘Techno-Chauvinist’ & ‘Anti-Humanist’ to Believe in the Transformative Potential of Technology? (September 2018)
HOW WE MUST RESPOND = “Rational Optimism” / Right to Earn a Living / Permissionless Innovation
- A Case for Innovation and Optimism (A conversation with Jason Crawford, March 2022)
- How To Defend a Culture of Innovation During the Technopanic (April 2019)
- Is This the End of Permissionless Innovation? (January 2021)
- How Technology Expands the Horizons of Our Humanity (November 2018)
- Deep Technologies & Moonshots: Should We Dare to Dream? (September 2018)
- The Right to Pursue Happiness, Earn a Living, and Innovate (September 2018)
- Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom (2016)
ADDITIONAL READING:
- Is There a Science of Progress? (August 2019)
- Technological Innovation and Economic Growth: A Brief Report on the Evidence (March 2019)
- 5 Books that Shaped My Thinking on Innovation (April 2020)
- Innovation and the Trouble with the Precautionary Principle (April 2020)
NEW BOOK (tying together all the essays and papers listed above):
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