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.
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11 mo on HNWe Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
6 mo on HNThe LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
6 mo on HNCan You Watch This Without Getting Angry?
5 mo on HNA Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
4 mo on HNDon't Be the Last Person to Die
5 mo on HNCivilizations at the End of Time: Iron Stars
4 mo on HNHow to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
4 mo on HNCivilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming
3 mo on HNThe Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
3 mo on HNArcologies
3 mo on HNWhy Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter
3 mo on HNHauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia
2 mo on HNWeb 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
2 mo on HNFermi Paradox: The Dyson Dilemma v2.0
2 mo on HNAI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
2 mo on HN#Earth 🌏 Will we survive this ? Amazing⚡️ #crashcourse on #collapse & #environment by #ArthurKeller
2 mo on HNWhat Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?
2 mo on HNColonizing Venus
1 mo on HNHow to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
1 mo on HNMatrioshka Brains: Star-Powered Computers
1 mo on HNWho is Manipulating Facebook? - Smarter Every Day 215
1 mo on HNDyson Spheres
1 mo on HNThe Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
1 mo on HNPaul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
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Mentioned in HN threads about futurism & technology and society, though never formally recommended:
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary · Everything's+Amazing+ +Nobody's+Happy · Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987) · Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy · What kids really do on Musical.ly · Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development · Steve Jobs on the Post PC era · How to Create a Mind | Ray Kurzweil | Talks at Google · Google’s The Selfish Ledger (leaked internal video) · AT&T - 1993 "You Will" Ad Campaign · Star Trek Economy · Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style · Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future · The Most Persistent Myth · Elon Musk and Y Combinator President on Thinking for the Future - FULL CONVERSATION · Decentralized Web Summit - Live From The Internet Archive · David Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars · The surprising decline in violence | Steven Pinker · IBM Flying Cars Commercial · Nanofactory Animation