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> space age plane built with 60’s tech Wasn't the 60's the space age, though? :)

• NotSammyHagar 9y ago
  We're living in the age of idiocracy.
• k__ 9y ago
  Was it? I have the feeling much of the tech of the last century was too much for the people living at the time. Yes, they found out about fusion and fission, but there are no viable fusion reactors out there and even the fission ones are highly problematic. Yes, they build super sonic planes but they barely held together or did cost a fortune. Yes, the send people to space, but how many and at what price? We even had super computers and main frames, but it took half a century to get this tech in every home AND then some time to get it in everyones pocket. Last century was more of a industrial mass market thing. The stuff from the 1800 was finally available for the rest of us. The whole high tech stuff was discovered at the time but it wasn't really usable, even if it was still used, see concord or fission based power plants. On the other hand, the risk we took for the power plants was probably set off by getting electricity to everyone and allowing the industrial age tech to work more wide spread. Anyway, I think we are in more of a space age now than we were back in the days.
  • oblio 9y ago
    Now just wait for 2 billion+ people to actually get working on our future problems. Say what you will about China and India industrializing, but if we manage to transition fast enough to renewables, having so many middle class people will have a huge impact on the world history, more than anyone is expecting right now, I think.