Futurism & technology and society Videos Recommended on Hacker News (96)
Futurism & technology and society is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 96 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 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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12 mo on HNPreventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
8 mo on HNJonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)
6 mo on HNWe're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
4 mo on HNMassive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn
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 HN34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
4 mo on HNBret Victor - Seeing Spaces
3 mo on HN"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega
4 mo on HNConstruction of the 10000 year clock - Alexander Rose (SETI Talks)
3 mo on HNAndreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019
3 mo on HNThere is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott
2 mo on HNBeware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
2 mo on HNDavid Deutsch on Optimism
2 mo on HNWeb 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
2 mo on HNIs the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker
1 mo on HNHuman Computation
1 mo on HNvon Neumann probes, Dyson spheres, exploratory engineering and the Fermi paradox
1 mo on HNWhere good ideas come from | Steven Johnson
1 mo on HNSoftware is in Decline - Jonathan Blow
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Mentioned in HN threads about futurism & technology and society, though never formally recommended:
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary · Everything's+Amazing+ +Nobody's+Happy · Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987) · Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy · What kids really do on Musical.ly · Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development · Steve Jobs on the Post PC era · How to Create a Mind | Ray Kurzweil | Talks at Google · Google’s The Selfish Ledger (leaked internal video) · AT&T - 1993 "You Will" Ad Campaign · Star Trek Economy · Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style · Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future · The Most Persistent Myth · Elon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION · Decentralized Web Summit - Live From The Internet Archive · David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars · The surprising decline in violence | Steven Pinker · IBM Flying Cars Commercial · Nanofactory Animation