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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1 mo on HNHuman Computation
1 mo on HNIBM RFID Commercial-The Future Supermarket
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 HNTony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation
1 mo on HNThe Fake Futurism of Elon Musk
1 mo on HNMatrioshka Brains: Star-Powered Computers
1 mo on HNWho is Manipulating Facebook? - Smarter Every Day 215
1 mo on HNSoftware is in Decline - Jonathan Blow
1 mo on HNDyson Spheres
1 mo on HNWelcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
1 mo on HNThe Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
1 mo on HNRethinking Energy -- 100% Solar, Wind and Batteries Is Just The Beginning
1 mo on HNChamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change
1 mo on HNThere's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future)
1 mo on HNHYPER-REALITY
1 mo on HNBalaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013
1 mo on HNFuture Shock Documentary (1972)
1 mo on HNPaul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
1 mo on HNPeter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company | Conversations with Tyler
1 mo on HNThe nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today | James Bridle
1 mo on HNUTOPIA | Omeleto
1 mo on HNA.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
1 mo on HNMicrosoft: Productivity Future Vision
0 mo on HNWhat kids really do on Musical.ly
0 mo on HNDoctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development
0 mo on HNThe Most Persistent Myth
0 mo on HNLouis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy
0 mo on HNGoogle’s The Selfish Ledger (leaked internal video)
0 mo on HNAT&T - 1993 "You Will" Ad Campaign
0 mo on HNElon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION
0 mo on HNStar Trek Economy
0 mo on HNClay Shirky on Love, Internet Style
0 mo on HNSteve Jobs on the Post PC era
0 mo on HNDecentralized Web Summit - Live From The Internet Archive
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