I really don't see his perspective on a lot of these.<p><i>I don’t think we’re living in an incredibly fast technological age.</i> - ..speaking on innovation in fields outside of computing.<p>I agree that the pace of tangible improvement in some fields (eg construction) has not been as fast as others, but a lot of things have been changing fast. Think of simple manufactured goods. Chairs, plates, etc. The labour efficiency or just end-user price and choice is far better today compared to a generation ago. For a lot of goods (eg clothes) most of the cost to the end user happens between factory door and checkout. We could be doing a lot better at that, but the actual process of turning sunshine, water & air into t-shirts and washing detergent is not stagnant. This happened during a period where China's annual addition of low cost employees to the global pool kept average wages and efficiency low. Labour efficiency would (will) be even higher as their wages rise.<p>Progress is complicated. But I can't see how he comes to his conclusions. Maybe I'm missing some context.
There is absolutely nothing objectionable in the content of this article. It's also aimed squarely at "hackers" and entrepreneurs.<p>Flagging privileges have been abused, too.
How about doing something meaningful about the Clathrate Gun?<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis</a><p>Turning the Methane Deposits into a business would be nice.