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I think that everything you directly mentioned is incremental improvements over the last decades (electric cards, SSDs, 3d printing, tissue printing, DNA/RNA mi

I think that everything you directly mentioned is incremental improvements over the last decades (electric cards, SSDs, 3d printing, tissue printing, DNA/RNA microarrays, 3d motion detection, RaspberryPI and Arduino [which are more mass production and extra firmware plays than anything], etc). However the io9 link's contents are the f-ing future and they didn't even scratch the surface. Our understanding of biology is getting better and better, automation is finally starting to get wide acceptance both in industry and academia, and there is so much work being done by universities today that was pure science fiction only a decade ago. The future is sneaking up on us quietly, and once it's here, there's no going back :)

SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
The future doesn't happen overnight; everything is an incremental improvement ;) SSDs are designed as a drop-in-replacement for spinning hard disks. i.e. they work in systems designed for spinning hard disks. Systems adapted to how they work takes time. things which are "the f-ing future" aren't on the mass market yet. When they finally are, you could say with some justification that "this is just an incremental improvement of the real breakthrough of 2012" ;)
xentronium 14y ago
I think that understating current era achievements is some sort of cognitive bias. Quite probably it even has a fancy name that I don't know of. For example, recently one my friend argued that there haven't been too many inventions in the latest quarter of the 20th century and beyond (compared to first three quarters of the 1900s). It took me some time to explain it that having the internet, self-driving cars and computerized prosthetics is fucking amazing. Also, the clip of Louis CK ("Everything is amazing and nobody's happy" [1]) helped :) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnzZZw84v0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnzZZw84v0 ADD: found the term! Rosy retrospection! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection

SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago

The future doesn't happen overnight; everything is an incremental improvement ;) SSDs are designed as a drop-in-replacement for spinning hard disks. i.e. they work in systems designed for spinning hard disks. Systems adapted to how they work takes time. things which are "the f-ing future" aren't on the mass market yet. When they finally are, you could say with some justification that "this is just an incremental improvement of the real breakthrough of 2012" ;)

xentronium 14y ago

I think that understating current era achievements is some sort of cognitive bias. Quite probably it even has a fancy name that I don't know of. For example, recently one my friend argued that there haven't been too many inventions in the latest quarter of the 20th century and beyond (compared to first three quarters of the 1900s). It took me some time to explain it that having the internet, self-driving cars and computerized prosthetics is fucking amazing. Also, the clip of Louis CK ("Everything is amazing and nobody's happy" [1]) helped :) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnzZZw84v0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnzZZw84v0 ADD: found the term! Rosy retrospection! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection