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Now, imagine living in Victorian era: electic lights instead of gas and candles, electric motors, engines, trains, steam ships, the refrigerator, the telegraph,
by M95D 2y ago
Now, imagine living in Victorian era: electic lights instead of gas and candles, electric motors, engines, trains, steam ships, the refrigerator, the telegraph, the microscope, microbiology and germ theory, sanitation reforms, first anaesthetics, first X-rays.
- echelon 2y agoIf you're trying to make a statement about the number of transformative discoveries or the rate of change, I'd disagree. While progress might appear slower, it's because the low hanging fruit have been plucked and we're working on much harder things. Autonomous helicopters on Mars and giant 45 degree Kelvin mirrors at LaGrange points are harder than plumbing. Nevermind EUV lithography. Or the previously mentioned rapid drug development. It's pretty remarkable how far we've come in just the last ten years. Even the stupid things like endless on-demand entertainment are great. And travel, communication, keeping memories, live entertainment. They didn't have drone shows or voice changing VRChat VTubers. I'd prefer to live in today's world over the Victorian era. And the coming generations will have it even better.