17/ There's this weird thing where people don't count tech as real unless it impacts them directly and obviously... and if it DOES, then it's dismissed as MERE consumer goods. This is a catch 22. You're a consumer. EVERYTHING you touch is consumerist.
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28/ ...has been reduced to a smooth slick-as-wet-ice pathway, connecting you and your ideas with likeminded tribemates. In 2020, how many millions of people work from home, doing basically HOBBIES, and get paid for in? In 1920 they'd be doing 12 hr factory shifts.
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29/ Heck, in 1980 they'd be putting on polyester suits, fastening their ties, driving their crappy cars running on leaded gas to dirty cities so sit at desks under flourescents and file TPS reports. No flying cars, but now there's a vast industry of artists, crafts people,
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30/ TTRPG designers, SF authors, digital artists, oil painters, musicians, CAD designers, blacksmiths, editors of anthologies, furniture designers, etc. living lives that are customized and meaningful ... bc of slow steady "meh" improvements in infrastructure tech since 2000 AD.
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32/ Piston rings are better. Carbide teeth on cutting burrs are better. Bearings in tablesaws and 4" angle grinders are better. Motors are better. Windows are better. Insulation is better. Car bumpers are better. HVAC is better. Vacuum cleaners are better. Everything is
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34/ I ENTIRELY disagree. There is effectively no distinction between consumer goods and capital goods. A "big TV" is the same as a big monitor that lets a CAD guy works 4x as effectively as he could 20 years ago.https://twitter.com/marcus_drusus/status/1345107654700621829 …
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35/ A "mere phone" is a pocket supercomputer that replaces the user interface panel on any sort of robot or machine, allowing mechanics to diagnose cards, read tech manuals, etc. in the field.
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36/ A 3-d printer for printing custom minis for your Pathfinder game is exactly the same thing as a rapid prototyping tool that lets mechanical engineers design and deploy a new product in 5 months, not 24.
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37/ New metal fusion technology that lets you get a luxury $200 Shun chef's knife with stainless cladding a high carbon center that sharpens better than stainless is the same as high wear resistance bearing technology.
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