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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.

Talk×
12 mo on HN

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)

DevGAMM
Recommended 14× on HN · 2020–2025
8 mo on HN

Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)

bus
Recommended 11× on HN · 2019–2023
6 mo on HN

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci

TED
Recommended 6× on HN · 2017–2026
4 mo on HN

Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn

TED
Recommended 4× on HN · 2012–2022
5 mo on HN

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson

TED
Recommended 5× on HN · 2018–2025
4 mo on HN

Pop an ollie and innovate! | Rodney Mullen | TED

TED
Recommended 4× on HN · 2018–2021
4 mo on HN

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!

media.ccc.de
Recommended 4× on HN · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces

Colin McDonnell
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

Blockchain vs. Bullshit: Thoughts on the Future of Money [Classic Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Talk]

aantonop
Recommended 3× on HN · 2017–2017
3 mo on HN

"An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture" by Devine Lu Linvega

Strange Loop Conference
Recommended 4× on HN · 2023–2024
4 mo on HN

Construction of the 10000 year clock - Alexander Rose (SETI Talks)

SETI Institute
Recommended 3× on HN · 2015–2019
3 mo on HN

Clean Disruption - Why Energy & Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030 - Oslo, March 2016

Tony Seba
Recommended 3× on HN · 2016–2018
3 mo on HN

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

CraftHub Events
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2025
3 mo on HN

There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott

The Royal Institution
Recommended 3× on HN · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser

TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2012–2025
2 mo on HN

Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012

kykeon
Recommended 2× on HN · 2016–2020
2 mo on HN

David Deutsch on Optimism

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

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

TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

Stanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale

Stanford Online
Recommended 2× on HN · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

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

TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2020–2021
2 mo on HN

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

O'Reilly
Recommended 2× on HN · 2010–2024
2 mo on HN

Let's use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan

TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2011–2012
2 mo on HN

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

TED
Recommended 2× on HN · 2018–2022
1 mo on HN

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

Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Recommended 1× on HN · 2012–2012
1 mo on HN

Human Computation

GoogleTalksArchive
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2019
1 mo on HN

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

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

Where good ideas come from | Steven Johnson

TED
Recommended 1× on HN · 2010–2020
1 mo on HN

Tony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation

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

Software is in Decline - Jonathan Blow

gamedev cuts
Recommended 1× on HN · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

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

Tony Seba
Recommended 1× on HN · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013

Y Combinator
Recommended 1× on HN · 2013–2020
1 mo on HN

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

TED
Recommended 1× on HN · 2018–2025

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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