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Just the sheer number of companies and the complexity of the supply chain to produce a square inch of product most of which is tamed sand… is mind boggling. I
by textlapse 2y ago
Just the sheer number of companies and the complexity of the supply chain to produce a square inch of product most of which is tamed sand… is mind boggling.
I don’t think there is quite another product made by humankind that matches the sheer number of humans/sqinch - even including rockets, space ships, and some hospital clean room equipment.
Truly a golden era to be alive as a civilization to appreciate the height of human potential.
- m3kw9 2y agoAlmost every current era is golden if you lived in that era, unless you look back. Tech is always improving every year, if it isn't tech, is laws and social structures.
- Certhas 2y agoThis is not true. The idea of constant progress is a relatively recent cultural invention. Prior to the great acceleration changes were slow enough that the world seemed static over a lifetime. If it wasn't, the changes were almost as likely to be negative as positive. It's also entirely possible that we are in a transitional period. That in hindsight the great acceleration will be the first half of a sigmoid function. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Acceleration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Acceleration
- TeMPOraL 2y agoMakes me think of something my high school physics teacher tried to drill into us: if you zoom in on an exponent enough, it looks like a straight line. Maybe we're transitioning between stages of a sigmoid. Or maybe we're still on an exponential trajectory, but on a timescale of one lifespan, the change still looks linear (if very fast).
- lazide 2y agoBahaha - plagues (black death, plague of justinian, many more)? conquered by mongols? targeted by crusades over centuries? Do you think the Natives in North America, South America, or Australia saw it as golden?
- hedora 2y agoI'd guess a kernel of corn has a similar humans per square inch ratio. It took about 10,000 years to bio-engineer the stuff at your grocery store.
- textlapse 2y agoThat’s true. In terms of humans per sqinch per unit time though….?
- rustcleaner 2y agoThis comment just makes me want to hoard all the chips and the plans and the... ... oh god what if we collapse again like Atlantis?!!