> How's the quality of our food tech improved in the last 53 years? Are we all reaping the rewards of that? Why are we so much more obese and diabetic? Purely

> How's the quality of our food tech improved in the last 53 years? Are we all reaping the rewards of that? Why are we so much more obese and diabetic? Purely talking about the technology, food manufacturing tech has experienced radical innovation over the last 53 years. Not just "with computers", but through biology / biotech etc. These things have nothing to do with socioeconomic issues which largely underpin, e.g., public health issues like obesity and diabetes. That's actually the common refrain through this whole list, it mostly seems you're arguing that technological innovation hasn't kept pace with social progress, which might be true, but is also a completely orthogonal point. > How's the quality of life for the average child? Can they spend their day doing more of what they wanted vs 53 years ago? Speaking of technological progress, medicine! Your stat measure has the same problem. The correct answer is: 1/10 infants died in 1915, to .3/10 in 1950, to .07/10 in 2000 to .05/10 per day. Each step along the way, due to technology/scientific advancement, measurable & meaningful numbers of kids got to experience life, who would not have been able to without those advancements. This is why we do what we do, and here's to knocking .05 down to .01 because that is who we are.