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Progress Studies antecedents

The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University tried to encourage optimistic thinking about the future through fiction and narrative.
An applied history movement is needed to help draw lessons from history and apply them to real-world problems.
In a world with Progress Studies, a new focus on progress belongs to a school of thought that would encourage a decentralized shift in priorities among academics, philanthropists, and funding agencies. This has already happened in climate-science research and the designation of Keynesian economics, which helped economists focus on fiscal policy as a tool for recession fighting.

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The world would benefit from an organized effort from various disciplines to understand:

We still need a lot of progress for major challenges. We haven't yet cured all diseases; we don't yet know how to solve climate change; we don't yet understand how best to predict or mitigate natural disasters.
A lot of progress can also come from...

In effect, the goal of Progress Studies is to treat, not merely to understand.