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>> the underwater thing was so important back then. Because, unlike outer space, the deep ocean was a magical and alien dimension that existed only feet away f
by sandworm101 3y ago
>> the underwater thing was so important back then.
Because, unlike outer space, the deep ocean was a magical and alien dimension that existed only feet away from everyone's doorstep, and the technology for getting there was under rapid development. Jules Verne's 20,000 LUTS came out only twenty years previous to this article. The artist may well have read it as as child.
- bluGill 3y agoYet space now seems more accessable. The pressures in the ocean are no joke.
- 0xEF 3y agoSeems like a reasonable inference. Futurology, even before there was a name for it, seems to hinge on two important factors; immediate need vs convergence of technologies. This results in some admittedly anachronistic ideas, but seems like a pretty rational approach, none the less. That the sea was not only accessible to a degree, but we also had hints of what was down there, would likely put that in the front of thinking minds as a problem solved in the near future, outer space being a bit less attractive of a mystery, since it was not obvious that resources could be gained from trying to go there. I do often wonder what our current predictions of the future will look like five or six generations down the line. I'd like to think that we have a better grasp on problems that need solving or how technology will naturally combine to accomplish more work, but I bet the folks in the late 1800's thought they had a good grasp on that, too.
- fennecfoxy 3y agoPutting it as "20,000 LUTs" just makes me think of https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/tang/tang-nano-20k/nano-20k.html https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/tang/tang-nano-20k/nano-... lmao