The Tech Progressive
A writing challenge to learn and share technologically progressive ideas
This essay is one of 7 essays for The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge. Join the build_ Discord to join the conversation.
In "The Purpose of Technology," Balaji Srinivasan makes the case for promoting technologically progressive ideas.
He writes, "We need to take time out of our busy days to make the case, repeatedly and with high production values, that technological progress is the most important thing we can do for broad-based prosperity and economic growth, and for life itself."
The harsh reality is that content and media are important. Narratives created by content influence people's actions and perception of the world.
Inventing new technology will be key to progressing and improving society.
But, sharing the progress we've made and inspiring others to invent and apply new technologies is just as important.
I'm writing this post as a part of The Tech Progressive Writing Challenge that I started and am running with the build_ community.
The challenge is simple: write 7 technologically progressive essays in 7 days. Each essay must be under 500 words.
We have an inspiring group of people starting today that will be publishing an essay a day for the next week.
The Tech Progressive highlights two of my passions.
Tech Progress
First, I have been obsessed with technological progress for as long as I can remember. To me, nothing is cooler than doing more with less. Nothing is more inspiring than doing something better, faster, and cheaper.
We're living in an incredible time where we're witnessing breakthroughs in so many areas of technology.
In the past decade, we have seen major progress in electric vehicles, education, space travel and manufacturing, the reimagination of money, ownership, and governance with cryptocurrencies and web3, vaccines, longevity, and so much more.
(Of course, this is not to say that there are not tradeoff and downsides. The point is that technological progress poses a potential solution to our most dire problems. Exciting!)
The Tech Progressive aims to bring people together to learn and create technologically progressive material for 7 days.
Education
Second, as I've written about for the past two years, education is going through significant change.
The internet has enabled us to do more with less in education.
Through building MyMBA, I've learned the power of bringing people together online to learn, create, and connect.
Technology will help humanity solve our most pressing issues. Through The Tech Progressive, we will explore and share these technologically progressive ideas.