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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.

1 mo on HN

Human Computation

GoogleTalksArchive
1 HN recommend · 2013–2019
1 mo on HN

IBM RFID Commercial-The Future Supermarket

David Preece
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

von Neumann probes, Dyson spheres, exploratory engineering and the Fermi paradox

Future of Humanity Institute
1 HN recommend · 2014–2026
1 mo on HN

Where good ideas come from | Steven Johnson

TED
1 HN recommend · 2010–2020
1 mo on HN

Tony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation

Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES)
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019
1 mo on HN

The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk

Tom Nicholas
1 HN recommend · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

Matrioshka Brains: Star-Powered Computers

Isaac Arthur
1 HN recommend · 2017–2023
1 mo on HN

Who is Manipulating Facebook? - Smarter Every Day 215

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2019–2020
1 mo on HN

Software is in Decline - Jonathan Blow

gamedev cuts
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

Dyson Spheres

Isaac Arthur
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
1 mo on HN

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2013–2026
1 mo on HN

The Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Rethinking Energy -- 100% Solar, Wind and Batteries Is Just The Beginning

Tony Seba
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change

Stanford Graduate School of Business
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019
1 mo on HN

There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future)

incubatepictures
1 HN recommend · 2015–2026
1 mo on HN

HYPER-REALITY

Keiichi Matsuda
1 HN recommend · 2017–2025
1 mo on HN

Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013

Y Combinator
1 HN recommend · 2013–2020
1 mo on HN

Future Shock Documentary (1972)

Jamie Clay
1 HN recommend · 2017–2026
1 mo on HN

Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934

Attila Gárdos
1 HN recommend · 2014–2022
1 mo on HN

Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company | Conversations with Tyler

Mercatus Center
1 HN recommend · 2017–2021
1 mo on HN

The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today | James Bridle

TED
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

UTOPIA | Omeleto

Omeleto
1 HN recommend · 2022–2026
1 mo on HN

A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Interesting Times
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Microsoft: Productivity Future Vision

Microsoft in Business
1 HN recommend · 2017–2021
0 mo on HN

What kids really do on Musical.ly

PaymoneyWubby
0 HN recommender · 2018–2020
0 mo on HN

Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development

C-SPAN
0 HN recommender · 2026–2026
0 mo on HN

The Most Persistent Myth

Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2015–2024
0 mo on HN

Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy

Marjo Duiveman
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HN

Google’s The Selfish Ledger (leaked internal video)

intermission
0 HN recommender · 2018–2023
0 mo on HN

AT&T - 1993 "You Will" Ad Campaign

Anthony Kalamut (Southside AdGuy)
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HN

Elon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION

Vanity Fair
0 HN recommender · 2015–2024
0 mo on HN

Star Trek Economy

EpiXXmaN
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025
0 mo on HN

Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style

Chris Vertonghen
0 HN recommender · 2009–2024
0 mo on HN

Steve Jobs on the Post PC era

smlierow
0 HN recommender · 2017–2020
0 mo on HN

Decentralized Web Summit - Live From The Internet Archive

Internet Archive
0 HN recommender · 2016–2018
0 mo on HN

Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future

MaMa Zagreb
0 HN recommender · 2017–2026