interesting #6: on the future

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1. Tyler Cowen on the future
So we’re going to see a kind of intellectual war, and possibly war in other, more violent forms too. That war, using that word in the broadest sense possible, will be between today’s amazing accumulated stock of human capital — and the emotional momentum behind authoritarianism, which is encouraged by the political fraying that stems from underlying fears of disruption.

2. Is violent upheaval the only cure for inequality?, Futurity 

3. 2016 was the year solar panels finally became cheaper than fossil fuel, Quartz