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"That’s one reason why I’m so optimistic about the future: the constant churn of scientific progress. Think about the changes we’ve seen just during my presiden
by jganetsk 10y ago
"That’s one reason why I’m so optimistic about the future: the constant churn of scientific progress. Think about the changes we’ve seen just during my presidency. When I came into office, I broke new ground by pecking away at a BlackBerry. Today I read my briefings on an iPad and explore national parks through a virtual-reality headset."
Those changes are relatively minor.
- aswanson 10y agoWhich raises the question: What _was_ the most significant scientific discovery during the Obama era? Can we even quantify it yet?
- whenwillitstop 10y agoDeep learning
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- threeseed 10y agoCRISPR most likely followed up by the Higgs Boson.
- pavlov 10y agoCRISPR?
- cypherpunks01 10y agoI'd say it's likely that the most significant discovery of the past 8 years hasn't gone too far past the initial discovery phases. CRISPR is a good example of a discovery that has just come into the public consciousness in recent years, but history for that dates back 20 years! LIGO & Higgs boson too, decades upon decades of research have gone into these.
- return0 10y agosnapchat & blockchain(?) the rest (crispr, higgs, deep learning) are not even american, let alone obama-age
- rdtsc 10y agoYeah that shows that he is out of touch with most Americans. He is in touch with the HN crowd, perhaps but someone who is out of job because the factory was moved to Mexico doesn't a give a shit about VR headsets and Blackberries.
- return0 10y ago> the constant churn of scientific progress. That is a relatively silly remark. Science and technology never go back, by definition. Not even after world wars. Economies can go back, or cultures.
- DefaultUserHN 10y agoObama: "Look at me and my rich friends. We upgraded from BlackBerry to iPad." Meanwhile, normal Americans are finding it hard to find any normal jobs, because they've all moved overseas. Silicon Valley is also out of touch with the common Americans, because STEM jobs are plenty, so people on Hacker News do not understand the struggle of the average American who can not find a normal job (that is not in the STEM field).
- yread 10y agoThey still somehow scrape money to get an iPhone though