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Well, some of this list was surprisingly prescient, like the stuff about online tracking and home assistants. The points about online misinformation and fact ch
by CM30 7y ago
Well, some of this list was surprisingly prescient, like the stuff about online tracking and home assistants. The points about online misinformation and fact checking were pretty ominous too, though the internet of the early 00s had the exact same problems.
The medical predictions however were way off (it'll probably be a while until nanotechnology as mentioned in the article becomes that ubiquous or limbs can be regrown), and the self driving car ones sounded like something people would write today in their list of future predictions.
And for the moral quandries? Well, it seems the human response to those has been what it always has; ignore everything that's happening outside their tribe/local area/country. That's probably never going to change, since any creature that lives its life constantly thinking about everyone else's moral struggles is going to be living its life on the constant verge of a mental breakdown.
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