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I've thought about this on and off, and one day I arrived at this: The only technological progress that truly matters to me are medical ones. If people could li
by sanoli 12y ago
I've thought about this on and off, and one day I arrived at this: The only technological progress that truly matters to me are medical ones.
If people could live and not get sick, and not die until they're 90, then I would be fine living with 1970's era tech, or whatever year's era tech. Then all we'd need would be to have less violent, more egalitarian societies, à la Scandinavia.
Flying cars, faster+cheaper computers, better internet be dammned. (or they could go on being improved, but I wouldn't care if not)
P.S. I never get the flying car thing, since we have helicopters.
- will_work4tears 12y agoI agree entirely, medical progress is really the only thing that really interests me, aside maybe material science and engineering breakthroughs (e.g wastewater treatment, etc). I never got the flying car thing because we can have flying cars. The technology is there, the barriers are more.. social or political, if that makes sense. I sure as hell don't want people flying anywhere near my house in a 2 ton vehicle 20+ feet above the ground at even residential speeds. A nice yard, some trees and maybe a fence keep a runway car out of my living room, not so with a flying one.