Jason Crawford

Author, The Roots of Progress

Mr. Jason Crawford is the author of The Roots of Progress, a website about the history of technology and industry, and the philosophy of progress. He is also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program about the history of technology for high schoolers, and a part-time technical consultant and adviser to Our World in Data. Formerly, he was a software engineering manager and tech startup founder. He was co-founder & CEO of Fieldbook, a hybrid spreadsheet-database, and has also been an engineering manager at Flexport, Amazon, and Groupon. Long ago he helped build a biotech supercomputer for D. E. Shaw Research.

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Is Technology Actually Making Things Better?
John K. Davis & Jason Crawford
October 9, 2020