Interview: Better Future with Bolek Kerous

by Jason Crawford · January 30, 2022 · 1 min read

Bolek Kerous interviewed me at the the Foresight Institute’s Vision Weekend conference. Topics & timestamps:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 01:00 - Progress studies & foresight - history & future
• 02:33 - Highlights from Foresight Vision Weekend
• 03:32 - Ambitious Foresight visions, sci-fi coming true
• 05:22 - Existential hope and agency to be solutionist
• 07:30 - Origins of solutionist mindset about the future
• 08:42 - Establishing a new philosophy of progress
• 10:55 - How and when did fatalism become popular
• 14:25 - Favorite metric of progress
• 15:58 - The future of The Roots of Progress
• 16:56 - Longevity as the problem to solve
• 18:08 - Drive to experience how the grand future plays out
• 19:50 - What comes post capitalism? UBI?
• 22:47 - Ranges of possible futures
• 24:32 - Degrowth as a defeatist attitude
• 26:51 - Myth of overpopulation
• 27:20 - One technology you’d bring to fruition
• 27:52 - One idea you’d share with everybody
• 29:12 - One question to ponder you’d ask everybody
• 31:05 - Jason’s vision of a better future
• 32:32 - Outro

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