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> And if you read HN and can't think of progress in the last five years, then you must be incredibly cynical. Reading on HN means 99% of the times aspirational
by Bubble_Pop_22 4y ago
> And if you read HN and can't think of progress in the last five years, then you must be incredibly cynical.
Reading on HN means 99% of the times aspirational stuff. Aspirational stuff doesn't count.
What counts is stuff that improves quality of life in the real world, not just aspirationally sometimes in the future in order to play the musical chair game of the stock market or VC markets.
Stuff like mRNA vaccines.
An other example would be fracking but that largely happened 2005-2015
- VikingCoder 4y agoOP also claimed "the pipeline of innovation is also empty," and then you're trying to correct me that HN is showing aspirational stuff. So which is it? Is HN filled with content showcasing the pipeline of innovation or not?
- krageon 4y agoI'll thank you not to put words in my mouth.
- AstralStorm 4y agoWe need more. We need cheap and clean energy and research in that sector has happened and is happening now, likewise water purification on large scale or we'll go dry. Improvements in farming and husbandry are also not being deployed as they're marginally more expensive, even though we critically need them. The visibly good technologies exist and need to be deployed; due to lack of investment in them, cost is prohibitive.