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I don't think your comment does justice to how much we have advanced since 1960.. Today.. * we can have pretty much any food delivered to me with a click of a
by swat535 4y ago
I don't think your comment does justice to how much we have advanced since 1960..
Today..
* we can have pretty much any food delivered to me with a click of a button
* We can have a ride at anytime to any destination with a click of a button
* Communicate instantly with millions of people with a click of a button
* Huge automation in business operations and logistics
* AIs that can literally draw pictures and write sentences
* Practically look at any place across the globe, find directions in any country and translate nearly any text to any language
* Listen to unlimited amount of music and entertainment with a tiny wireless thing in my ear that can also make calls
* Automated vacuum cleaners that run on schedules, mop floors and dispose their trash
* Cars that are much more efficient, can detect pedestrians, red lights, road signs, have blind spot monitoring, can warn you when you are drifting off, warn you if you risk collision, ..
* MRNA vaccines and breakthroughs in many areas of science (CRISPR for example)
* SpaceX, Starlink satellites and adoption of electric cars
* We literally have 3 rovers and 1 lander currently in operation on Mars, transmitting images and data
I could go on but I think I've made my point.
To claim that we have not progressed is ridiculous. Yes, we need screens and internet to accomplish some of these, but we also need fuel and electricity to build a lot of tech in 1960. Some technology simply require other technology and I think that point is irrelevant.
- ge96 4y agothe bit vs. atoms thing is interesting though We don't have the ability to regenerate someone's arm in real time or program it to become the limb of another animal in real time. Teleportation, FTL, flying cars (anti gravity), consciousness transfer, 3D printed food from raw atoms, seamless BCID, direct matter to energy conversion, space elevator, real holograms, all those currently sci-fi/impossible things plasma/laser/particle weapons which Nikola Tesla supposedly was working on back then but with miniaturized fusion energy sources maybe it'll be a thing (small cyclotron too). active camouflage (cheap mass produced lcd display/camera overlaid on aircraft) haha name every sci-fi concept you've ever seen I remember the first time I saw a helmholtz coil in action (bending glowing electron beam into a circle via magnetism) that was crazy but of course tv, even those tiny ones size of a walkman