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Compare that to the previous century. Where is the equivalent of the airplane, radio transmission, space travel, television, antibiotics, the Internet? Those we
by zerostar07 15y ago
Compare that to the previous century. Where is the equivalent of the airplane, radio transmission, space travel, television, antibiotics, the Internet? Those were breakthroughs, not just incremental advances. There s never 'enough progress'. One should be an optimist though, there s innovation incubated in the life sciences
- inerte 15y agoAlthough I mostly side with Tiel on his observations, to be fair you're comparing a century to a decade. And in hindsight it is easy to tell what was a breakthrough. Remember that when computers were invented few thought that we would have them in the palms of our hands.
- jleyank 15y agoHmm... I might be off by a year or two, but I think it's pretty #%!*^&% amazing that you can have a powerful computer that is a link to the world in your pocket. That was the deepest science fiction 20-30 years ago. Maybe it's due to cheap flash memory, or maybe flash memory itself. No matter, it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it would be quite nice to have alternative energy sources that were inexpensive. It would also nice to have cures for all "popular" diseases. But, compared to mucking with computers, those things cost serious money and require serious hardware. Oh, and can't be solved by "release early and release often".