Abundance Institute
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Creating an environment for emerging technologies to grow, develop, and thrive
Joined January 2024
For 50 years, pessimists have been wrong. In this interview, The Rational Optimist author @mattwridley walks us through the miracle of human advancement, from lighting a room to transforming entire economies. This is the story you’ve never been told about how the modern world
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RT @ckoopman: This is what abundance looks like when you go beyond policy, move it off the whiteboard, and get it into the world.
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RT @ckoopman: At the @abundanceinst, we believe the future gets built by people who look at the impossible and decide to build anyway. To m….
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RT @sdamico: The new "electric tech stack" is eating the world: batteries, power electronics, motors/electromagnetics, and compute. Almost….
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Human prosperity didn’t start in the fields. It started in the marketplace. @mattwridley on how ideas spread, cultures grow, and progress accelerates.
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RT @RickEcon: "Ambitious optimism is morally mandatory." @abundanceinst interview with @mattwridley, author of the Rational Optimist. "Inno….
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RT @garrytan: One big reason why AI intelligence will gather increasingly in the browser (like Perplexity’s Comet). The browser wars are ab….
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As @kajakallas has argued, trust grows when governments show up where people already are: online.
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Voting should be as easy as ordering an Uber. Estonia’s had secure online voting since 2005. It works. It increases turnout. And it’s time we caught up. Bradley Tusk on rethinking civic tech for @TEDTalks ↓.
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RT @neil_chilson: IF YOUR JOB IS SPREADING IDEAS, PAY ATTENTION. Cloudflare's new default setting - to block AI crawlers from websites - ig….
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RT @megan_jenkins17: Beautiful new video by the Abundance Institute on why we should be optimistic about the future. People are creative pr….
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RT @taylordbarkley: @mattwridley has been very influential to my thinking about tech and innovation. Really pleased that we were able to pr….
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RT @karelvuong: The progress humanity has made in the past few centuries is nothing short of extraordinary. But a culture of pessimism ris….
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RT @jasonjoyride: Had the opportunity to film with Matt Ridley, the author of one of my favorite books: The Rational Optimist. It's the 1 b….
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