Has Progress Stopped?

Parents

Articles About Progress
Big Questions
Big Questions I Love to Answer
Big Science Questions
Progress
The End of Progress

Children

2025-10-23 OGM Call: Has Progress Stopped? (xlnt)
52 Reasons to Fear that Technological Progress Is Reversing
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? (2017 pdf)
Has progress in science and technology come to a halt?
Have We Stopped Innovating?
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (2025)
Innovation Doldrums? of 2016
Is 2011 Really Better Than 1973?
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds (2012 pdf)
Living Constitution Party Research
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time (2023 pdf, got lots of attention)
Peter Thiel and the Antichrist (cray-cray)
Scientific regress: When science goes backward
Stalled Technologies
The Age of Decadence (2020; disagree)
The End of the Future (10/2011)
The future is disappearing: How humanity is falling short of its grand technological promise
The Myth of Technological Progress
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (2016)
The Strangest Idea in the World: A Shortcut to the Future (2026)
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress (2011)
The world of tomorrow (2024 essay)
Was 2006 Peak Democracy?
What We Won’t Discover Anytime Soon
Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past (2018)
Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill (xlnt)
Why Don't We Have Flying Cars? How Capitalism Steered Innovation Toward Social Control Rather Than Technological Wonders
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back (2025)
Why so Many Remakes and Repeats? Has Culture Stalled?
Why the Age of American Progress Ended
You Promised Me Mars Colonies. Instead, I got Facebook.
Young Folks Today Will Likely Do Worse than Their Ancestors

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Disruptive Innovations
What Is Progress?
You Can’t Stop Progress

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