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"  Within the next few years, technology will improve your life in ways you can scarcely imagine." I doubt this. It would be nice if there were some details p

• cryptoz 15y ago
  Well, the very point being made is that details can't be provided - we can "scarcely imagine" them. But if you look to the past, I think you can draw parallels that give the author the benefit of the doubt here. Take a few select years from the last few decades and look at how "your life" may have changed as a direct result of technology in the time span of a few years. Around 1992, the Internet began to fundamentally alter most people's[1] lives for the better. Most of them never saw it coming. In 2008 or so, the smartphone app revolution altered developer's lives in a huge way. The examples abound, but of course it depends on who you are and what "your life" is. None of this will affect the solitary farmer in China - at least not directly, nor for a while. [1] in the developed world. See ~2012 for the developing world.