permacomputing club: christopher lasch's "the true and only heaven"
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We will be discussing Christopher Lasch's "The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics" about the history of the idea of "progress"
For more info on his thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_and_Only_Heaven
In contrast, representing the idea of progress in San Francisco will be Dario Amodei, with his techno-optimist essay "Machines of Loving Grace"
More detailed description and page selections tbd. It will probably be chapter two and maybe some other excerpts
https://darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace
About permacomputing:
https://permacomputing.net/
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