Asimov and the Apollo engineers grew up benefiting from progress; their children grew up doing duck-and-cover exercises, hiding from it under their desks. Of course they relate to it differently!
This theory predicts that people who grew up after the cold war ended should be more prone to celebrate progress. I think that’s true: if you go to silicon valley, where the young inventors are, messianic excitement over the power of progress is easy to find. Isaac Asimov wanted to put an RTG in your refrigerator, and Vitalik Buterin wants to put your mortgage on the blockchain; to me they have very similar energies.
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Asimov and the Apollo engineers grew up benefiting from progress; their children grew up doing duck-and-cover exercises, hiding from it under their desks. Of course they relate to it differently!
This theory predicts that people who grew up after the cold war ended should be more prone to celebrate progress. I think that’s true: if you go to silicon valley, where the young inventors are, messianic excitement over the power of progress is easy to find. Isaac Asimov wanted to put an RTG in your refrigerator, and Vitalik Buterin wants to put your mortgage on the blockchain; to me they have very similar energies.