DrZoidberg
Contributor
Here's a great blog post where a guy sums up the big questions of our time.
https://patrickcollison.com/questio...KDeyiIveqwvkf0quwRuxlY21E7LUyY8x7-6rTG9iNRNvk
Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?
Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?
Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant?
How do you ensure an adequate replacement rate in systems that have no natural way to die?
How do we help more experimental cities get started?
How can we encourage the creation of more cities and more experimentation in their rules?
How do people decide to make major life changes?
Why are there so many successful startups in Stockholm?
Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?
How can we better understand the dynamics of progress in science?
Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how?
Should we just give up on our earlier visions of empowered users or is a better equilibrium possible?
What's the successor to the book? And how could books be improved?
What's the successor to the scientific paper and the scientific journal?
What's the right way to understand and model personality?
Why are programming environments still so primitive?
What does religion cause?
Why is there no canon for life's most important questions?
Why are so many things so much nicer in Switzerland and Japan?
Why isn't China (yet) producing a lot of top-tier research?
Why don't we build nice neighborhoods any more?
What influences when people act in accordance with their self-interest and when they don't?
What's going on with infrastructure?
Why did climatic variability suddenly decline in the Holocene period?
https://patrickcollison.com/questio...KDeyiIveqwvkf0quwRuxlY21E7LUyY8x7-6rTG9iNRNvk
Why are certain things getting so much more expensive?
Why do there seem to be more examples of rapidly-completed major projects in the past than the present?
Why is US GDP growth so weirdly constant?
How do you ensure an adequate replacement rate in systems that have no natural way to die?
How do we help more experimental cities get started?
How can we encourage the creation of more cities and more experimentation in their rules?
How do people decide to make major life changes?
Why are there so many successful startups in Stockholm?
Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?
How can we better understand the dynamics of progress in science?
Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how?
Should we just give up on our earlier visions of empowered users or is a better equilibrium possible?
What's the successor to the book? And how could books be improved?
What's the successor to the scientific paper and the scientific journal?
What's the right way to understand and model personality?
Why are programming environments still so primitive?
What does religion cause?
Why is there no canon for life's most important questions?
Why are so many things so much nicer in Switzerland and Japan?
Why isn't China (yet) producing a lot of top-tier research?
Why don't we build nice neighborhoods any more?
What influences when people act in accordance with their self-interest and when they don't?
What's going on with infrastructure?
Why did climatic variability suddenly decline in the Holocene period?