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Technology & society videos

Future-facing technology videos often make sweeping predictions from a real frustration. These starting points offer critical arguments about knowledge transfer and blockchain, allowing you to inspect mechanisms rather than borrow a speaker’s certainty.

Capability loss and a technology critique

Blow’s talk argues that technological capability can erode when knowledge fails to transfer. Mickens’s lecture criticizes blockchain proposals through trust and practical constraints. Choose Blow for an argument about maintaining complex systems across generations; choose Mickens for a focused technology critique. Neither establishes a timeline for civilizational decline or a verdict on every possible implementation. Ask which observed failures support the claim and what would count as a successful counterexample.

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These are opinionated talks, including humor, rather than comprehensive forecasts. Keep the recording date and scope visible when comparing them with later developments.

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