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No idea why you are getting downvoted dor asking a hard question. It's hard because we've barely made progress in every other facet of technological progress e
by vagrantJin 6y ago
No idea why you are getting downvoted dor asking a hard question.
It's hard because we've barely made progress in every other facet of technological progress except computing. Our systems are fragile and not future proof. We haven't learned. We've gone from discovering the secrets of the natural world and modelling it to internet connected toasters in less than a century.
This is called decline.
- danaris 6y agoThis implies that we've stopped trying to discover secrets of the natural world, which is the farthest thing from the truth. Basic science is still going on. True, the US isn't as good at funding it as we used to be, but it hasn't stopped, and I doubt it ever will. More importantly, the fact that we're making "internet connected toasters" (and various other experimental gadgets of questionable practical utility) does absolutely nothing to detract from the fact that we are still "discovering the secrets of the natural world". There are a lot of people in the world. There's plenty of room for some to be doing amazing science while others make weird gadgets, no matter what you or I think of those gadgets.
- gumby 6y ago> Our systems are fragile and not future proof. We haven't learned...This is called decline. It’s a sign of technical immaturity. A Cambrian explosion of precarious innovation is standard for any new technology of any import (you can look back merely a couple of centuries to see the same in steam engines, trains, bridges, bicycles, automobiles, aircraft, pharmaceuticals...). Be excited to live through one such!