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Has the future arrived?
Google buys robotics companies. Drones. China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space. Exciting times :-)
- thenerdfiles 13y ago> History is pre-determined by scientific laws which are sequentially discovered by people and which, in their inexorable application, produce technology. — Bruce Bimber. "Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism" (http://web.mit.edu/sts/pubs/pdfs/MIT_STS_WorkingPaper_11_Bimber_2.pdf http://web.mit.edu/sts/pubs/pdfs/MIT_STS_WorkingPaper_11_Bim...). 1990.
- gesman 13y agoBad news: it is only the present. Always. :)
- _random_ 13y ago"China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space." - previous century's achievements. "Google buys robotics companies." - no result yet, they still have to figure out how to add ads to robotics. No, future has not arrived.
- brudgers 13y ago"The past is never dead. It's not even past." -- William Faulkner
- collyw 13y agoThe Orwellian aspects certainly seem to be here.
- imdevelopin 13y agoFuture will never arrive. It is present always.