Kyle Harrison
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Where Is My Flying Car?
Where Is My Flying Car?
Why it’s on the list: A diagnosis of the “great stagnation” in energy and atoms — why the 20th-century curve of physical-world progress flattened, and what it would take to restart it.
Where I saw it: Stripe Press catalog; a recurring reference in the progress-studies and technological-stagnation discourse.
Connections
- Historical Futurists — sits squarely in the lineage of thinkers asking why the predicted future of atoms (not just bits) never arrived.