44/ When you see China build cities overnight, that is, yes, PARTIALLY a sign of a young vibrant can-do culture ... but it is ALSO a sign of poverty. Poor countries can't "afford" property rights, or environmental review, etc.
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45/ yep! This is another facet - early tech is big and in your face and LOOKS like tech. E.g. a massive coal smoke belching train. Later tech is quiet and unobtrusive - like cheap cameras the suppress property crime, which makes us wealthier. https://twitter.com/2Akmessiah/status/1345112653480382465 …
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46/ And a lot of tech is big and bulky ... but hidden away from view (which, again, is a sign of wealth). MRI machines and a thousand other advancements lower cancer deaths, but what does that look like? It doesn't look like a big machine. It looks like grandma at Christmas.
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47/ "ersatz" is a bogus complaint. Yes, processed fish sticks aren't as awesome as tuna sushi ... but it's 1% the price. Without fish stick technology, the people eating fish sticks today weren't eating high grade sushi. They were eating oatmeal.https://twitter.com/GregSuburban/status/1345112559020507136 …
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Greg Suburban @GregSuburbanReplying to @GregSuburban @MorlockPIncreasingly tech is used to make peoples lives worse, replacing real things with ersatz alternatives, making people irrelevant. The techno-future of yesterday was a utopia, the techno-future of today is dystopian. The cry of today: "I wish technology would stop progressing!"2 replies 0 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
48/ Chipboard bookshelves aren't as good as hand made walnut barrister bookcases with brass fittings. But without ersatz chipboard, the normies weren't using barrister walnut - they had no shelves.
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50/ yes and that improvement in rubber technology means that everything you buy costs 0.1% less than before, which means you can take a slightly longer vacation ...and 5 days on the beach instead of 4 doesn't "count" as technology.https://twitter.com/leepavelich/status/1345113209947111425 …
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51/ These 1% improvements are going to keep adding up, and in 30 or 50 years you'll take a vacation to Mars. ...and people will bitch "well, space travel isn't a NEW or REAL technology ... we had this a century ago. They just PRODUCTIZED it." Again: "just".
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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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Greg Suburban @GregSuburbanLived experience is being replaced by the simulation of life. Technology is increasingly used as a "prosthetic" for functions we've lost, and the solutions we invent are pale shadows in comparison. Con.t https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1345113650089111559 …Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread
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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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James M @JubalncReplying to @MorlockP @mattparlmerI think this point's related to productization. If we were 50% wealthier in real terms, say, in 1982 as in 1959, then even an instantly-built CD player would have been 50% more expensive for people. Improvements in productivity in every field made CD players more feasible.5 replies 0 retweets 10 likesShow this thread -
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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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John Taloni @JohnTaloniReplying to @MorlockP @mattparlmerHero of Alexandria had a working steam engine circa 50 AD. Had he understood what could be done with it, Rome need not have fallen. We might have reached for the planets 1,000 years ago. So yep, going from prototype to usable technology really freaking matters.2 replies 1 retweet 20 likesShow this thread
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