Risk & Progress: The Curated Collection

Collected Essays about the Perils and Potential of Humanity

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Risk & Progress: The Curated Collection is a new kind of ebook from Risk & Progress. It’s a living document, a compilation of essays about the perils and potential of humanity. The Collection is organically expanded and refined as new research emerges and new issues are published. Paid subscribers gain full access to The Collection and all future editions.

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Part 1: Understanding Progress

What is Progress?

Entropy is Everything

A Fortuitous Planet

Progress and our Place in the Universe

Progress is Never Finished

Between Utopia and Dystopia

Progress Makes Knowledge Abundant

A World of Billionaires

Does Material Progress Matter?

Progress Decarbonizes Energy

Growth as Environmentalism

Progress is Counterintuitive

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Part 2: The Perils of Progress

Suddenly, We Don't Have Enough People

Are Human IQs Falling?

The Paradox of Processed Food

A World Made of Pillows

The Stark Politics of SpaceX’s Starship

The Innovation Red Queen's Race

Human Negativity Bias

The Bull**** Asymmetry Principle

Credential Inflation

The Housing “Theory of Everything”

The Rise of the Extremists

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Part 3: Building a Better Protopia

Investing in, Instead of Indebting our Future

Patents or Prizes?

Tackling Torts

Balancing Healthcare's Impossible Trinity

Tax Sugar

Funding the Future

Supercharging Innovation

Rethinking Education

The Triple Helix of Innovation

Government as a Platform

The Tragedy of The Anticommons

In Defense of Free Trade

NGDP Targeting

Cutting the Red Tape

The Minimum Wage Problem

Occupational License Reform

Just Tax the Land

Consumption Taxes Are Better

Rethinking Retirement

Paying for Public Infrastructure

The Future of Executive Compensation

Quadratic Corporate Governance

A Half-Step to Open Borders

The Trillion-Dollar Bill on the Sidewalk

The Key to a Sustainable Economy

Countering Misinformation

The Promise of Quadratic Voting

Toward A Sustainable Population

Pilot Zones

Combating Graft in Government

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Part 4: Human Potential

NASA/Boeing Team to design a Radical New Airliner

The Race for the 'Holy Grail' of Rocketry

The Promise and Peril of Artificial Meat

Age of the Androids

How the Atom Can Split Martian Travel Time

The Age of Deferred Aging

The Quiet Revolution in Space Tech

Back to the Propeller?

Here Come the Iron Batteries

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