Fundamental Questions About Acceleration

    • What are the limits of how the human brain can adopt to the modern world?
    • What are the symptoms of the brain trying to cope with the modern world?
      • On the one hand, the brain is incredibly good at adapting. It is amazing how different our modern world is from our ancentral world.
    • If we simply project modernism forward, what happens?
      • Lots of people can't cope?
    • What is the link between acceleration, money supply, and inflation?
      • See George Simmel
    • What is the relationship between acceleration and inequality? Why does inequality seem to rise during periods of the greatest acceleration?
    • Are we in a growth paradigm where things crash if we stop growing? If so, how does that work?
    • Is the acceleration of society making people happier or giving more meaning?
      • What are the fundamental elements of subjective well-being?
      • Is it possible that accelerationism is really good at meeting people's basic needs for survival, but terrible for meeting people's deeper needs for human connection and meaning?
    • How is a brain who grew up in info scarcity different than one that grew up with info abundance?
    • As technology evolves more quickly, will generational differences increase? If so, what are the implications of that?