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Toilets are a great example of how technological progress isn't just endless improvement. Sometimes we hit complete dead ends even on the simplest problems.
by Jedi72 8y ago
Toilets are a great example of how technological progress isn't just endless improvement. Sometimes we hit complete dead ends even on the simplest problems.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoThere have been lots of toilet innovations "recently". Toilets that use excrement to generate electricity, for example, like in this situation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41680867 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41680867.
- pokemongoaway 8y agoMost things are examples of this - including Intel's latest CPU :) Seriously though, how did the so-called "futurists" get away with applying Moore's law to all innovative processes without being called charlatans? Sky scrapers don't double every 18 months, food has gotten less nutritious... Ditto for education, transportation in the west, all non-emergency medicine, and many who are even "techies" think software has recently been decreasing in quality.