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Right now I feel every reason to be gratuitously optimistic. - Solar photo-voltaic is or is about to be the cheapest form of electricity, we will solve the sto
by willholloway 12y ago
Right now I feel every reason to be gratuitously optimistic.
- Solar photo-voltaic is or is about to be the cheapest form of electricity, we will solve the storage problem
- Electric cars are getting closer to the tipping point, and they are going to drive themselves
- Biotech is making incredible gains, see cancer immunotherapy or NSI-189
- The pace of technological innovation has accelerated and continues
- The intellectual capital of the human race has never been anywhere near this large, free, accessible
- Robots/a lot of weak AI is or is about to get to a point to change the game
- cauterized 12y agoWe're on trajectory technologically but not sociologically.
- nosuchthing 12y ago"We eat in restaurants, buy branded toiletries, build skyscrapers, create legislative institutions, travel in flying machines, write poetry, and search for meaning in relationships, temples, and scientific books. Humans have discovered antibiotics, sent probes into space, decimated rainforests, shared a billion views of clips of kitten behaviour, and decoded their own genomes. But there is one thing that humans have singularly failed to do, and that is to properly understand their own behaviour. " — Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis: Gaining Control: How human behavior evolved [0] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gaining-control-9780199688951?cc=us&lang=en& https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gaining-control-9780...