Editor's note: Kurt Vonnegut delivered the following speech at the University of Chicago in 1994. I discovered it in a lovely collection of his speeches and commencement addresses. The collection is titled: If This Isn't Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live
I am excited to share the third and final conversation in the Techno-Visions series. I spoke with MIT economist Simon Johnson about his new book, Power and Progress, co-authored with fellow MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. A Techno-Visions Conversation with Simon Johnson0:00/3127.9681×
Despite being October, our Summer Book Club is still running. Travel to Colombia and Kenya over the past three weeks delayed the final lap of Techno-Visions. (The travel is part of our initiative to expand the routes of behavioral science knowledge around the world). I am writing with an update