Voice
Jason Crawford
Founder · Roots of Progress · site
Writer and founder of The Roots of Progress Institute. Building the intellectual foundation for a new philosophy of progress. Coined "techno-humanism" as a third way between safetyism and reckless acceleration.
Key writings
Positions on problems
Nuclear, fusion, and solar abundance are the central infrastructure quests. Safety is an engineering achievement of progress, not a brake on it.
Housing affordability is a solvable problem of permitting, construction productivity, and policy. Progress narratives must include material abundance.
We need a new philosophy of progress that makes technological and scientific advancement a positive cultural project again, not something to apologize for.
Extending healthy human life is a core progress goal. Curing aging is as legitimate a target as curing any single disease.
Education quality is the compounding lever. Progress requires transmitting knowledge at higher fidelity and lower cost to each successive generation.