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Dustin Curtis is seriously overrated. Everything Dustin asks for in this post makes no real change, it's all entitled things that forgo other more important thi
by DigitalSea 13y ago
Dustin Curtis is seriously overrated. Everything Dustin asks for in this post makes no real change, it's all entitled things that forgo other more important things. Essentially it appears Dustin wants a future with even further less human interaction
I want fresh food to last ten times longer than it does now, with no reduction in taste or nutrition — I want a future where countries without access to fresh food or where food is virtually non-existent no longer starve to death while us gluttonous obese humans stuff our faces and waste.
I want mass-produced products to be locally manufactured just-in-time in dark, human-less warehouses by robots, and not made in far-away lands — This is called insourcing and it is an approach many companies are taking nowadays, but you know who loses out here? The people in those "far-away lands" are people living below the poverty line and once those jobs are taken away, they have nothing.
I want doctors to be way less involved with practical medicine, and for computers to diagnose and treat disease — because a computer wouldn't make mistakes, right? Computers will never truly understand humans nor feel compassion, nor will they be a cure-all for everything.
I want nuclear reactors or some other clean technology to power the entire world’s electrical grid, safely. — Dustin successfully used clean and safely in the same sentence as "nuclear reactors" did he not hear about what happened in Japan and what is very much an ongoing thing? Who said nuclear reactors were clean or safe? The waste products of nuclear fission are far more damaging to the environment if they get out than coal is...
Every single idea presented is merely a toy and serves to only please those who have the luxury of being able to afford half the things listed in this article; food, electricity, shelter and basic medical services. Where are the ideas for bettering the lives of the entitled and untitled? Where are the ideas that don't require you to have hundreds or thousands of dollars to fork out on expensive gadgets you need to upgrade yearly?