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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.

Futurism & technology and society Videos Recommended on Hacker News (96)

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We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing

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

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

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)

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

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

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

Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?

Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter

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

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

Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn

Don't Be the Last Person to Die

Civilizations at the End of Time: Iron Stars

How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson

Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED

How to Enjoy the End of the World

Civilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!

Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces

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

Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]

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

Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)

Clean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030 - Oslo, March 2016

The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

THE SAGAN SERIES - The Frontier Is Everywhere

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

The Classroom Only Works for One Kid in the Room

Arcologies

Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

Everything is a Remix (2023 Edition)

Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia

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