It's super interesting that transatlantic flight is slower in 2020 than it was in 1960. Approximately 0/100 people would have predicted this at the start of the Jet Age, just like none of us thought in 2000 we'd end up using slower computers with less memoryhttps://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1401586209873305602 …
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People's imagination is completely shackled by what they saw in living memory. I will be comparing stuff to the Brezhnev era and Usenet far past the time when I am an upload on somebody's Zune II
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Similarly, everyone's boldest fantasies of the future right now are based on bad sci-fi they read as young people, most of that written by aging men with their own imagination stunted by experience. Whatever optimism I have about the future is rooted in that dearth of imagination
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Pepe memes and anti-vaccination-as-a-cult.
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None of those came to pass because of capitalism my dude
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You have a vaccine in your username that was developed by capitalism
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We might have routine space travel, eradicated disease, and a world government if it weren't for politics.
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It’s a testament to how contingent everything is.
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If some politician somewhere comes to their senses and funds mRNA vaccine development adequately, we might actually be at the tip of “eradication of disease.” (Big “if”, I know.)
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We actually can do routine space travel...nobody has wanted to invest money into doing it because it can't make an effective enough profit yet. The only reason you're seeing companies like blue origin/spacex and other countries interested now is because of harvesting resources
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The only reason why technology has stagnated is specifically because if it can't make money then it's not worth investing into. You're not going to invest billions into new tech if it can't turn a profit
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