Pathways of Progress is an “organic eBook” from Risk & Progress. It’s an evolving compilation of 60+ curated essays, bringing together knowledge synthesized from 150+ sources, 5 years in the making. The series explores the paradox of human progress, the perils we face this century, and pathways to a brighter future.

Think of Pathways as an eBook that is never truly finished. Instead, it’s organically expanded and refined as new research emerges and new issues are published. Subscribe for free and receive the first 7 essays sent directly to your inbox!

Part 1: The Paradox of Human Progress

The origins and counterintuitive nature of progress (approx 40,000 words and 100 sources).

• What is Progress?

• Human Progress in 9 Charts

• Our Reality Distortion Field

• Progress’s First Principles

• A Cosmic Oddity

• Deafening Silence

• The Fortuitous Planet

• Lifeless to Living

• Evolution’s Algorithm

• Rise of the Sapiens

• Harvesting Sunlight

• Smokestack Singularity (Part 1)

• Smokestack Singularity (Part 2)

• Homefront Liberation

• Bombs and Bananas

• Defying Malthus

• Sapien Sorcerers

• Harnessing Heat

• Time Travelers

• People Power and Progress

• The Social Supercomputer

• Igniting Ideas

• Experience Curves

• Billionaire Planet

• Pollution’s Peak

• Measurement Maladies

• Scaling Kardashev

• Protopia’s Precipice

Part 2: The Perils of Progress

Evaluating the most pressing threats to our future.

• A Forgotten Future

• The Energy Cliff

• The Processed Food Paradox

• Empty Earth

• Devalued Dreams

• Patent Failure

• The Invisible Graveyard

• The Housing Theory of Everything

• Costly Contagion

• Entangled by Entitlements

• Undermining Unity

• Democracy’s Demise

• Mechanical Monarchs

• Singularity’s Schism

• The Time of Perils

Part 3: Planning for Prosperity

Examining practical ideas to accelerate human progress into the 22nd Century.

• Accelerate

• God From the Machine

• Streamlining the State

• Juries, Judges, and Justice (Coming Soon)

• Ports, Prosperity, and Peace

• The Dark Side of Property

• Tax the Land

• The Bounty Beneath

• Consumption Conundrums

• Let Skyscrapers Bloom (Superscaler Skylines-Coming Soon)

• Trillions on the Sidewalk

• Managing Migration

• Dynamos of Discovery (Coming soon)

• Education Reimagined

• Campuses of Creation

• Science State

• Patents vs Prizes

• Perfecting Patents

• Baby Boom

• Solving Sickcare (Prescription for Progress-Coming Soon)

• Surcharging Sugar

• Rebuilding the Pyramid

• Dust Dome Democracy

• The Banality of Blind Men

• 22nd Century Dreams

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