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It really breaks my mind. And the actual biggest progress is in the last 150 years. And how things accelerated in the last 30..
We went from first powered flight to landing on the moon in just 66 years. Bananas!
Speaking of Bananas, the artificial Banana flavoring that tastes nothing like the bananas you get in the store actually tastes like Gros Michel bananas, which are functionally extinct. You can order a bunch from some special greenhouses, but they're something like $20 a pound.
We went from a room-sized machine that could compute 5,000 additions per second to pocket size supercomputers that run at nearly a million times that speed in a similar span of time.
Yeah but then what? All we did was make the mhz smaller and more efficient and all we got were Teslas the self-driving suicide machines.
You're right, there have been no technological or scientific advances since the moon landing other than Tesla cars.
Oh come on, projections from the sixties had us having huge space colonies by now. Growth in the exploration sector has been anything but exponential.
I find it humorous that you're sitting around being irritated that we don't live in the future imaginings of the boomer generation from 60 years ago.
Don't judge me for wanting a nuclear flying car!
I'm judging you for not dreaming your own future and instead relying on dreams of the future that are 60 years old.
60 years old. That's how old your idea of the future is.
Heh, I get it. I don't really want flying cars. I want walkable cities and cycling highways. But I do feel a bit nostalgic for a future we didn't have where at the very least we would have some serious exploration of Europa by now (and some other likely candidates for alien life).
it is called exponential growth
But why didn't it start 20,000 years ago
It did, we were just in the boring part of the exponential curve where it's basically flat
and we will currently be in the flat part compared to the next few thousand years (at least if humanity survives until then)
Cause no steam engines or copper wires or antibiotics. Hadn't even invented metalworking afaik.
They should have just googled it
why hadn't they invented bootstraps to pick themselves up by.
You're old, they should've asked ChatGPT
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Evolution.
It trully is
The last 30 have been cool technologically. But for real life changing things? You probably saw more in other 30 year periods.
Internet? AI? AIDS Cure? There is quite a lot recently
We had internet 30 years ago. Which proves my point really, that 30 year period when the internet introduced was more significant.
AI is at the moment is an aggressive autocomplete. It will be something in the future.
Aids treatment. Yeah that's pretty good. Does it change the life of the average person? No.
Now take something like phones. You could talk to people far away. That was life changing. Past 30 years we just changed from landlines to cell and internet access.
TV? Life changing. Now we have bigger ones.
Cars? Life changing. Now we have bigger ones.
Trains? Life changing.