How can we make the world progress faster? Jason Crawford wants to know.

Vox | Oct 20, 2022 at 11:55 AM
  • Jason Crawford wants us to go forward by going backward.
  • But Crawford, a former tech startup founder, identifies something that runs beneath economic factors and scientific breakthroughs: vibes — “a philosophy of progress,” as he puts it, that took for granted the idea that progress was possible and progress was good.
  • As one of the leading members of the nascent progress studies movement, Crawford has dedicated his career to identifying what makes progress possible and to articulating a new philosophy around the subject that can break through the skepticism and distrust that color the public’s ideas about growth.