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.