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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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Mostly true. A few goods may be purely “consumer”, but your real argument, that the _technologies_ that produce “consumer” goods also produce “capital” goods, is beyond question, and developing the one facilitates producing the other. Like space/mil tech having civ. app’s.
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It might be more accurate to talk about a spectrum of consumer goods to capital goods rather than a binary, but there's definitely a difference in how useful various innovations are for productive work.
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A more well-formulated complaint might be: "The innovations we see today tend to have fewer useful productive applications than in the past." Rather than, "There are no more true innovations" I'm not sure it's true, but it seems reasonable enough in principle.
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I agree with and appreciate virtually every word of this thread, but a small correction: a big TV is not a monitor fit for monitoring purposes. Latencies are too low, Display Port > HDMI, etc.
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