41/ Would be curious to hear Matt say more on this, bc I think that tons of REAL engineering work takes place every dayhttps://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1345110620807569415 …
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52/ I don't, as I explained in the above 51 tweets.https://twitter.com/k0stoglotov/status/1345118922404630528 …
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53/ Technology has ALLOWED ME to live on a farm and grow my own food. Technology allows others to live in places with indoor plumbing (another simulation, I guess, of the more visceral and real state of nature). So maybe it's a toss up.https://twitter.com/GregSuburban/status/1345119293059416064 …
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54/ Asserting "X is Y" without an explanation, cites, discussion, etc., is very boring. Everyone has an opinion. Your opinion WITHOUT ELABORATION is hideously boring. so...EXPLAIN. GIVE EVIDENCE. MAKE THIS NOT BORING.https://twitter.com/k0stoglotov/status/1345119387234099200 …
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55/ Exactly. Tiny improvements compound and make things move from "the lab" to homes, "all at once".https://twitter.com/Jubalnc/status/1345119856010686464 …
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56/ Rome was a society that routine tortured political criminals to death, practiced infanticide, and child sexual slavery. I'm very glad that productizing steam took a while.https://twitter.com/JohnTaloni/status/1345131866651676672?s=19 …
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And some people say things like "well death and poverty are still real", but only because they underestimate how insanely difficult those problems are to solve with technology. Does not imply lack of progress
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Consider how little we'd get done if we were truly appreciative of the constant advances in our recent lifetimes. I'd suggest the human capacity to become accustomed to the amazing and regard it as ordinary is critical to our very existence of not just lying around going "Wow."
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PRODUCTIZED: verb, meaning to ruin something by making it safe, reliable, and accessible, apparently.
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Which brings up another media reference: Brainstorm. Christopher Walken's team develops a stunning tech to record an experience and play it into another human mind, perceiving as happening to them at that moment. But the hardware is physically huge and impractical.
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Natalie wood's team then takes that tech and reduces it to a comfortable headset and a briefcase sized processing unit. Now the genie is truly out of the bottle.
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