{"id":3511,"date":"2026-05-10T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/?page_id=3511"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:00:52","slug":"ants-poets-and-the-romance-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/ants-poets-and-the-romance-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants, Poets, and the Romance of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/aims-and-activities\/\">Council for Transformative Enterprise<\/a> includes promoting the romance of progress. Not coincidentally, this is also an important aim of my course, Lessons from Transformative Advances (as described in this you tube video)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ant, the Poet, and the Romance of Progress\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OP8oTb3jBKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Backstory of the video: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I turned the talks I gave at IMD, Lausanne and the Nova Medical School, Lisbon into a you-tube video. It narrates how I came to teach a course on transformative medical innovations and why I am now trying to start a center on progress. So, it\u2019s kind of a nearly 70-year-old\u2019s memoir squeezed into a half hour clip.<br \/>I squeeze in a brief commercial for an initiative on progress that I&#8217;m trying to start. <br \/>The video, cobbled together in my unprofessional home studio won&#8217;t have Hollywood knocking down my door, but it gets the job done I hope..<br \/>Plus it has pictures of Federer\/Djokovich, my benefactors, my mother even..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of Council for Transformative Enterprise includes promoting the romance of progress. Not coincidentally, this is also an important<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3511\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}