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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.

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
2 mo on HN

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Michael Wesch
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger

Rebel Wisdom
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HN

Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser

TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2025
2 mo on HN

Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012

kykeon
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HN

Fermi Paradox: The Dyson Dilemma v2.0

Isaac Arthur
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HN

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HN

Max Headroom 20 minutes into the future 1985

Kevin Galvayne
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HN

Epic 2014

jessanmur
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
2 mo on HN

David Deutsch on Optimism

Royal Society of Arts
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HN

How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED

TED
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

#Earth 🌏 Will we survive this ? Amazing⚡️ #crashcourse on #collapse & #environment by #ArthurKeller

NEXT - Les Mondes Sensibles (byThePassengerStudio)
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HN

Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale

Stanford Online
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer

Freya Holmér
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
2 mo on HN

TikTok in China versus the United States | 60 Minutes

60 Minutes
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED

TED
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HN

A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)

Corning Incorporated
2 HN recommender · 2012–2019
2 mo on HN

Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy

checkoutmytrip
3 HN recommender · 2010–2012
2 mo on HN

What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?

Curious Droid
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HN

Colonizing Venus

Isaac Arthur
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
2 mo on HN

Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm

Folding Ideas
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.

O'Reilly
2 HN recommender · 2010–2024
2 mo on HN

I Forgot My Phone

charstarleneTV
2 HN recommender · 2013–2026
2 mo on HN

Algorithms are breaking how we think

Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2025–2025
2 mo on HN

Automation Dependency - Part One, by Capt. VanderBurgh (restored)

flightcrewguide.com
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses

Eric Weinstein
2 HN recommender · 2020–2020
2 mo on HN

Louis CK - Everything Is Amazing and Nobody Is Happy

Patrick Reed
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HN

Jaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life

Channel 4 News
2 HN recommender · 2018–2019
2 mo on HN

Let's use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan

TED
2 HN recommender · 2011–2012
2 mo on HN

Nick Bostrom - The Simulation Argument (Full)

Science, Technology & the Future
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
2 mo on HN

Jaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018

Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult Swim

Adult Swim
2 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HN

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker

TED
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
1 mo on HN

Peter Thiel and George Gilder debate on "The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth"

Intercollegiate Studies Institute
1 HN recommend · 2012–2012
1 mo on HN

How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024