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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 HN

We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing

CGP Grey
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
12 mo on HN

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)

DevGAMM
14 HN recommender · 2020–2025
8 mo on HN

Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)

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11 HN recommender · 2019–2023
8 mo on HN

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)

HBS Digital Initiative
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HN

The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"

Technology Connections
7 HN recommender · 2019–2024
7 mo on HN

Peter Thiel on "The Portal", Episode #001: "An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure."

Eric Weinstein
8 HN recommender · 2019–2024
6 mo on HN

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci

TED
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HN

Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?

CGP Grey
6 HN recommender · 2015–2025
5 mo on HN

Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter

vlada888
5 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN

College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"

College of DuPage
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
5 mo on HN

A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HN

Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn

TED
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
4 mo on HN

Don't Be the Last Person to Die

CGP Grey
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
5 mo on HN

Civilizations at the End of Time: Iron Stars

Isaac Arthur
4 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HN

How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HN

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson

TED
5 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HN

Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED

TED
4 HN recommender · 2018–2021
4 mo on HN

How to Enjoy the End of the World

Sid Smith
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HN

Civilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming

Isaac Arthur
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HN

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!

media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces

Colin McDonnell
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HN

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

Team Coco
5 HN recommender · 2013–2021
3 mo on HN

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega

Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
4 mo on HN

Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy

Lisa Zielinski
5 HN recommender · 2018–2026
4 mo on HN

Construction of the 10000 year clock - Alexander Rose (SETI Talks)

SETI Institute
3 HN recommender · 2015–2019
3 mo on HN

Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)

Evan Schurr
3 HN recommender · 2012–2025
3 mo on HN

The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
5 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HN

THE SAGAN SERIES - The Frontier Is Everywhere

Reid Gower
3 HN recommender · 2011–2016
3 mo on HN

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

CraftHub Events
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HN

The Classroom Only Works for One Kid in the Room

CGP Grey
3 HN recommender · 2013–2024
3 mo on HN

Arcologies

Isaac Arthur
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HN

Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
3 mo on HN

Everything is a Remix (2023 Edition)

Kirby Ferguson
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia

Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
3 mo on HN

There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott

The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics

Harvard University
2 HN recommender · 2013–2018