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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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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In the early 80s, the community college near me, Moorpark College, had a track for laser technology sponsored by numerous SoCal companies desperate for personnel who knew their way around lasers. Back then, I knew a couple of hobbyists who had lasers at home.
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Twenty years later, I had dozens of lasers in my home in the form of consumer goods. At least one in each computer and most game consoles, even handhelds like the PSP. given, I had a lot more than most people but most people owned at least a few between their home and car.
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i'm most excited about the new Supersonic Transport, aiming for Mach 2.5 passenger flight - tech demonstrator flight tests in 2021 should be a comparable flight revolution to SpaceX's in rocketryhttps://twitter.com/boomaero/status/1344663416988979201 …
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Gawd I hope. Retirment of the concorde was one of the more powerful symbols of our decay.
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US poverty dropped from 14.3% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2019. That’s ~11M lifted out of poverty in one decade in one country. Somehow methinks technology has a significant part.
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A decade ago the iPhone 4 arrived, beginning “mobile devices” as we currently understand them. We went from “nobody has one” to “everyone uses them for every aspect of life”. Yeah that’s impact.
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