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No we'll totally have flying cars and cure cancer and live life in an AR/VR multiverse and make all knowledge 100% free to everyone worldwide. Meanwhile the onl
by paxys 1y ago
No we'll totally have flying cars and cure cancer and live life in an AR/VR multiverse and make all knowledge 100% free to everyone worldwide. Meanwhile the only real advancements in tech in the last two decades have been smaller computers (smartphones) and ads.
- km3r 1y agoAnd self driving cars. Real time ray tracing. WiFi. Cloud computing. starlink. Crispr. mRNA vaccines. Blockchain. Voice assistants.
- NoGravitas 1y agoFully half of these are "bad, actually".
- zeofig 1y agoA humorously underwhelming list.
- paxys 1y agoAll the significant tech on that list is still "two years away from being two years away".
- km3r 1y agoWhat do you mean? I take a self driving car around every week. I got a mRNA vaccine that enabled us to get out of a pandemic much quicker. You can get fast internet in the middle of nowhere via starlink.