Y Combinator | Techno Optimism, Explained @ycombinator | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
Social media often promotes a doom and gloom outlook about our future society. But is that worldview accurate? In this episode, Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the best ways for founders and aspiring founders to think about weighing optimism and pessimism in their day to day lives.

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Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Coming Up
00:13 - Intro
00:27 - Failure Experts
01:02 - Perspective
02:32 - Information Access
03:39 - Communications
04:42 - Transportation
05:06 - Health Care
05:46 - Entertainment
06:26 - Seeing Progress
07:06 - Internet from Space
07:37 - Self-Driving Cars
09:14 - Renewable Energy
10:10 - 45 Minutes to Tokyo
10:56 - Moore's Rocket
11:42 - Why the Pessimism?
14:04 - Optimistic Future
15:55 - Outro