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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Adam Curtis has this great line of “we’re now all living in the mind of a dying hippie”.
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My SF-based vision of the future comes from ‘Riddley Walker’
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A surprisingly under-read book among people you’d have expected to have read it.
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In some ways, it feels like the imagination of what computers are/could be has narrowed, as cute metaphors like "the desktop" and "windows" calcify into concrete nouns
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That's ridiculous. There are plenty of domains where imagination is lacking, computer hardware and software aren't two of them.
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That dearth of imagination is my favourite Achilles heel of fictional hive minds. A thousand brains all coming up with different plans beating one large brain over the long term
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You should write some better sci-fi.
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