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Speak for yourself. I feel like I have riches of new tech at my disposal. Currently have 10 gbs fiber internet for $45/month, in one second I can download the
by nanomonkey 4y ago
Speak for yourself. I feel like I have riches of new tech at my disposal.
Currently have 10 gbs fiber internet for $45/month, in one second I can download the contents of my first hard drive. My laptop has 64gb of ram and 8tb of ssd. I don't even know what to do with that much compute as I mostly use Emacs and Firefox for everything. Meetings are completely online, so I no longer need to travel to visit other offices to exchange data.
My phone is an embarrassment of riches, it covers most of my digital needs (music, hd video, note taking, internet, email, etc.) but is mostly ignored because it's really just a distraction.
In the garage, a tig welder, cnc mill, vacuum casting table, burn out kiln and countless other tools. Due to the previously mentioned internet connection I can watch videos that teach me how to use all of this equipment. Most of the software to run the CNC mill, do CAD design or CAM is all open source and free.
I can also purchase solar panels, heat pumps, lithium iron phosphate battery banks for ridiculously low costs compared to what I would have had to spend back in the 90s when I first wanted to get off the grid.
All in all, it's all there for us to live the solar punk lifestyle we've all wanted...just takes doing it.
- bovermyer 4y agoBut humans are still limited. Until we accelerate our evolution, we'll be stuck at the speed of glaciers in terms of our potential.
- machinerychorus 4y agoMemetics is much more potent than genetics. We're about to achieve much more than people could 2000 years ago, not because humans have genetically evolved to be that much smarter, but because we have memetically evolved much more sophisticated social structures. Genetics is still important, and augmenting individual intelligence should still be pursued, but memetics is in the driver seat now.
- watercooler_guy 4y agoCould you expand on what you mean by this? What kind of new social structures are enabling progress in this way?
- machinerychorus 4y agoNew forms of government, larger and more complicated corporations, public schooling, labor unions, global shipping routes, universities, remote work, wikipedia, internet forums, open-source software development, stock markets, etc etc. None of these required a genetic change in the individuals involved, just a "memetic" change in the way the individuals acted, communicated, and thought.
- walleeee 4y agohorizontal transfer via memetics is not guaranteed to be a productive or stabilizing force in the long term, it could be convincingly argued many of our nastiest problems today derive from immaturity in handling novel forms of information flow and hybrid agency enabled by modern social and physical technology the task, imo, is to remove memetic agency from the driver's seat and put ourselves back in it, or if we want a chauffeur at least to make sure it's taking us into a viable future
- metadat 4y agoIf you have the means, it's nice. Where is this mythical $45/mo. 10gbps fiber connect?
- thehappypm 4y agoStarry in Boston is around this perf and cost
- seoaeu 4y agoStarry seems to charge $50 per month for 0.2 Gbit/second speeds. OP is claiming 50x faster speed at a lower price
- thehappypm 4y agoStarry actually has way better speeds
- seoaeu 4y agoSource? (Are you sure you aren’t confusing Mbps and Gbps?)
- thehappypm 4y agoI used Starry, they for some reason advertise speeds slower than what you get in practice.
- throwaway2037 4y agohttps://www.starry.com/ https://www.starry.com/ shows plans with 200Mbps down for 50 USD per month. I don't see anything about 10Gbps. Maybe this person lives in Switzerland? I have seen some crazy stuff there for about 50 USD.
- quickthrower2 4y agoI get 0.05gbps, for $45/mo.