Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Change

Is Societal Collapse Inevitable? (theguardian.com)
For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozović’s conclusion on what must happen to avoid today’s world imploding is both disarmingly simple and a daunting challenge: “We need dramatic social and technological changes.”
Societal Collapse, Social Change, Technology, Sustainability
16 points by marban 20 days ago | 3 comments
Is Societal Collapse Inevitable? (theguardian.com)
For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozović’s conclusion on what must happen to avoid today’s world imploding is both disarmingly simple and a daunting challenge: “We need dramatic social and technological changes.”
Societal Collapse, Future, Social Change, Technology
14 points by pseudolus 20 days ago | 6 comments
Underrated Ways to Change the World (experimental-history.com)
A lot of people would like to make the world better, but they don’t know how. This is a great tragedy.
Social Change, Personal Development, Impact
35 points by usrme 59 days ago | 15 comments
The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022) (historytoday.com)
Swear words are a constant, but their ability to cause offence is in flux. In the 1600s, today's obscenities were mundane.
Language, History, Linguistics, Culture, Social Change
119 points by pepys 82 days ago | 145 comments
Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters? (resobscura.substack.com)
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the world that my two daughters — both under the age of three— will inhabit when they’re adults.
Social Change, Communication, Technology, Culture
68 points by benbreen 86 days ago | 73 comments
Remote Work Was to Reshape the Political and Social Landscape. What Happened? (joanwestenberg.com)
The remote work experiment proved we don’t need to be in an office to succeed—so why are we still being dragged back to our desks?
Remote Work, Workplace Culture, Social Change, Politics
6 points by cratermoon 110 days ago | 0 comments
Deep Adaptation opens up necessary conversation about breakdown of civilisation (2020) (opendemocracy.net)
Climate Change, Civilization, Sustainability, Social Change
5 points by Bluestein 151 days ago | 0 comments
Generation Z Is Revolutionizing Sex (thewalrus.ca)
Generation Z, Sex, Social Change, Demographics
14 points by laurex 158 days ago | 10 comments
What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street (theatlantic.com)
Childhood, Urban Planning, Social Change
95 points by jseliger 172 days ago | 107 comments
UBI and the Anti-Work Vibe Shift (greshm.org)
Anti-Work Movement, Economics, Social Change
51 points by Suncho 175 days ago | 134 comments
Saudi Arabia to get first alcohol shop in more than 70 years (bbc.com)
Saudi Arabia, Alcohol, Culture, Social Change, History
4 points by thunderbong 189 days ago | 1 comments
Project 2025 Leader Promises 'Second American Revolution' (newsweek.com)
Politics, United States, Future, Social Change
15 points by archagon 198 days ago | 14 comments
The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world (bbc.com)
Social Change, Sociology, Minority Influence, Power Dynamics
69 points by fanf2 247 days ago | 143 comments
It's the End of the Web as We Know It (theatlantic.com)
Web Development, The Internet, Social Change
49 points by CaptainZapp 270 days ago | 71 comments