The anniversary of the moon landing is a great reminder of how it messes with your expectations to be on a "we thought it was exponential!" technology curves when it flattens out, as is happening with computers today. I gave a whole talk about this! https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm …
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If you’re lazy, there’s a shorter NBER working paper that summarizes the argument: https://www.nber.org/papers/w18315 . But the book is great for its detailed history of American standards of living. (Also, he specifically addresses airplanes.)
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