We were optimistic back in the day
We were optimistic back in the day
Photo of hover board from Back to the Future
Bottom text:
SCIENTISTS
you have 3 years.
We went from the first ever flight in 1903, to putting a man on the moon in 1969. I don't know at what point the advances stopped, but I guess people thought they'd just keep going
What? In our lives we have decoded the entire human genome. Half a million people live today that wouldn't if cancer research stopped.
The internet was created and literally connected the entire world and almost all its knowledge together.
You have a computer in your pocket that would have been the size of Texas 4 decades ago -- Transistor tech growth alone is absolutely remarkable.
Now, GPT4/AI has made it so ANY human with an internet connection can have access to a world class tutor on any subject. Think about the 150 million Indians that live below the UN poverty line and the opportunities that provides them and thus enriches the world's potential outputs.
If you want a read on how the world isn't actually getting as bad we as all read about, in totality, (I think our western institutions being corrupted and dying is another story), read this book -- https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Progress/dp/0525427570