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Techno-optimism for 2023 - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

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What you should be excited about

When I started this new Substack blog, I wanted to make it explicitly techno-optimist. The 2010s felt like a decade in which many Americans — especially in intellectual circles — undervalued and dismissed the promise of technology, deriding it as “solutionism”, the plaything of out-of-touch techbros, or late capitalism’s scheme to extract more money from hapless consumers. Meanwhile, economists were increasingly enamored with the idea of a long-term technological stagnation, postulating that we had picked most of the Universe’s low-hanging fruit. And then 2020 happened. I watched…

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