Futurism & technology and society Videos Recommended on Hacker News (116)
Futurism & technology and society is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 116 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 274 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
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.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing: “CGP gray's videos on YouTube are maybe the most concise and fun to watch materials I've seen on the subject.” — an HN commenter, 2020.
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11 mo on HNWe Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
12 mo on HNPreventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
8 mo on HNJonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)
8 mo on HNBlockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)
6 mo on HNThe LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
7 mo on HNPeter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."
6 mo on HNWe're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
6 mo on HNCan You Watch This Without Getting Angry?
5 mo on HNCollapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter
5 mo on HNCollege Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"
5 mo on HNA Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
4 mo on HNMassive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
4 mo on HNDon't Be the Last Person to Die
5 mo on HNCivilizations at the End of Time: Iron Stars
4 mo on HNHow to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
5 mo on HNHow one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson
4 mo on HNPop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED
4 mo on HNHow to Enjoy the End of the World
4 mo on HNCivilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming
4 mo on HN34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Seeing Spaces
4 mo on HNLouis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS
3 mo on HN"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
4 mo on HNLouis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy
4 mo on HNConstruction of the 10000 year clock - Alexander Rose (SETI Talks)
3 mo on HNNeil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)
3 mo on HNThe Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
3 mo on HNTHE SAGAN SERIES - The Frontier Is Everywhere
3 mo on HNAndreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019
3 mo on HNThe Classroom Only Works for One Kid in the Room
3 mo on HNArcologies
3 mo on HNWhy Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter
3 mo on HNEverything is a Remix (2023 Edition)
3 mo on HNHauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia
3 mo on HNThere is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott
2 mo on HN