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But in reality, the internet was built up slowly. And our appreciation got smeared out over decades, rather than focused onto a single celebratory moment.
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What else is out there, similar to the Moon landing? (This is a genuine question; I'd love to hear ideas.) What might we achieve in the next 50–100 years that can be celebrated all at once?
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I don't think there's anything quite like getting to the Moon (although I'd love to be proven wrong). Nothing as symbolic and intuitive even to children. Certainly putting someone on Mars will be *awesome*. But it's just not as novel. We already took the low-hanging orb.
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So that's why I think the Moon landing was so exceptional. Not because it's a height of progress we won't see again, but because it was our biggest and best shot at a singular technological *performance*. And we nailed it :D
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Photorealistic computer graphics. Very much "smeared out", but very much an impressive achievement.
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But the fact that it’s smeared out invalidates it as an answer to my question, no?
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Mars will be just as significant or more so. Interplanetary travel is a next level that surpasses lunar landing. Difficulty, distance & the fact the tech doesn't fully exist yet. NASA peaked at 4% of the US budget. Landing on Mars with less funding & national focus - miraculous.
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I respect that! I don’t think that landing on Mars will feel as significant (to most people) as landing on the Moon. But I hope we’ll find out soon that I’m wrong :)
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Making the smallest possible classical computer
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This is totally off my radar and doesn’t sound that impressive or interesting. What am I missing??
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The discovery of life on another planet. Won't be a scheduled event like the moon landing, unless there's a press conference where the discovery is revealed (but also hinted at, so all eyes are watching)
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Perhaps there's new fundamental physics at the far end of an accelerator energy desert, though unlike the moon we can't clearly see it from here.
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Drexler's proposals for nanotech come to mind -- not as a target with nowhere to pause in between, but in the sense of a coherent achievable engineering goal way beyond anything done yet. It doesn't seem like a coincidence he grew up in the 60s.
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