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I get that sentiment and entertain it often. But there’s another angle here, which is that landing on the moon was a singular goal, the likes of which we simply don’t have available anymore. Been talking to friends about what achievement in our lifetimes could even in principle
match the glory of the moon landing, and I don’t think any such thing exists. Landing a person on Mars? Kinda, maybe. So much progress is incremental, lacking a binary YES WE DID IT moment, such that even if it’s equally or more impressive, it’s harder to celebrate.
Reminds me of this— it's difficult to rally support/acclaim for a goal that's more gradual, even if it has great effect, which makes it more difficult to try accomplishing it in the first placehttps://twitter.com/HuanWin/status/1131400292686290944?s=20 …
Another issue is that most of the object-level problems that are before us at the moment are wicked problems / complex systems. Part of what'as unique about the moon landing is that it's still a *complicated* system, without optimization pressures working *against* it.
(click through for some explanations of "complex" vs "complicated", for those unfamiliar)https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1134965513950552066 …
Hm. Very interesting point! The time series of our “societal utility” is different than the time series of technological progress. Moreover, finding step functions in utility is hard relative to incremental. Is it maybe a cultural thing to say no more of the step funcs exist?
Hard to feel confident here, but it’s been a losing bet over the last several hundred years to say there are no more wow moments left from tech progress. However, as I take a few min to think about it, it is hard to come up with what those singular goal wow moments would be.
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