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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3 mo on HNThere is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott
2 mo on HNA Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson - Institute of Politics
2 mo on HNWeb 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
2 mo on HNThe War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger
2 mo on HNBeware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
2 mo on HNEric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
2 mo on HNFermi Paradox: The Dyson Dilemma v2.0
2 mo on HNAI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
2 mo on HNMax Headroom 20 minutes into the future 1985
2 mo on HNEpic 2014
2 mo on HNDavid Deutsch on Optimism
2 mo on HNHow the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED
2 mo on HN#Earth 🌏 Will we survive this ? Amazing⚡️ #crashcourse on #collapse & #environment by #ArthurKeller
2 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Unethical Algorithms of Massive Scale
2 mo on HNGenerative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
2 mo on HNTikTok in China versus the United States | 60 Minutes
2 mo on HNThe next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED
2 mo on HNA Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)
2 mo on HNEverythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy
2 mo on HNWhat Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?
2 mo on HNColonizing Venus
2 mo on HNWeird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm
2 mo on HNWeb 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
2 mo on HNI Forgot My Phone
2 mo on HNAlgorithms are breaking how we think
2 mo on HNAutomation Dependency - Part One, by Capt. VanderBurgh (restored)
2 mo on HNDaniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses
2 mo on HNLouis CK - Everything Is Amazing and Nobody Is Happy
2 mo on HNJaron Lanier interview on how social media ruins your life
2 mo on HNLet's use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan
2 mo on HNNick Bostrom - The Simulation Argument (Full)
2 mo on HNJaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018
2 mo on HNLive Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult Swim
2 mo on HNIs the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker
1 mo on HNPeter Thiel and George Gilder debate on "The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth"
1 mo on HNHow to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
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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