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17 lines
1.8 KiB
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{
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"HubID": "5660",
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"Date": "11/24/2025",
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"HubTags": [
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"External Platform Posts",
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"Future Map"
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],
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"Contacts": [
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"contact1",
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"contact2"
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],
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"Companies": "",
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"File": "",
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"Image": "r_and_d_experts_vs_models.jpg",
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"Summary": "Another staggering chart on AI’s progress—and why it may finally break a 60-year stall in big, civilization-shifting breakthroughs. It sounds unbelievable, but the data is real: a landmark 2023 Nature analysis of 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents found a universal, long-term decline in disruptive innovation across every field since the 1960s. Think about that decade: we built commercial supersonic aviation (Concorde); we deployed nuclear reactors at scale for clean electricity; we had moon landings with computers weaker than a key fob. And then? Progress didn’t stop—we redirected it. Over the last few decades, many of our brightest minds were pulled into companies designed not to advance civilization, but to monetize attention and human flaws, including: infinite scroll engineered to keep us doom-scrolling; algorithmic outrage that rewards anger over insight; gambling-style mechanics in finance and gaming; addictive micro-rewards in social feeds and dating apps; ragebait and polarization because conflict converts; consumer surveillance ads that know us better than we do. These are trillion-dollar business models built on distraction—not discovery. AI could be the reversal. We’re already seeing it compress months of research into minutes, giving individuals the kind of analytical leverage that used to require labs, grant funding, or teams of PhDs. If we redirect even a fraction of our talent and capital back toward energy, materials, health, manufacturing, and science, the next decade could look less like stagnation—and more like liftoff.\n",
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"Notes": ""
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} |