- Maybe the jetpack won't be needed because the internet makes it easier to do work without the need to commute (a way of work familiar to many HN readers i gu

- Maybe the jetpack won't be needed because the internet makes it easier to do work without the need to commute (a way of work familiar to many HN readers i guess). - The mars colony would prove a point more than being a revolution nowadays (same reason why we don't return to the moon much often). - We 're not really worried about lack of energy sources either, because our sun will be bright enough for long, and the relevant science is known for almost a century - Our chores been taken care by technology enough it seems, so we 're now feeding our brains. It's not very visible externally as the industrial transformation of the earth was, but the human brain has been upgraded significantly and irreversibly by the instant access to all the world's information. I thought the article would be about why internet innovation is not that so fast paced anymore... i was wrong.