The Boeing 707 flew lower and at a higher Mach number than modern jets, both of which increased its absolute speed. That we lived through the S-curve of aviation technology and still made silly predictions based on extending Moore's Law many decades into the future is on us
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I gave a whole talk on this once (https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm …). If you'd like me to give more talks, buy me a ticket (on a fast plane) and I'll go talk again. I enjoy writing these things
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In 1960 you had a strong basis to believe we were heading for routine space travel, the eradication of disease, and either world government or nuclear war. How none of these came to pass and we got Pepe memes instead is a testament to the power of the future to remain surprising
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Replying to @Pinboard
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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Replying to @Pinboard
Nah, it was developed by researchers with billions in public funding, my dude.
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Replying to @vexwerewolf
Publicly funded by taxes from a robust capitalist economy! It's capitalism all the way down, I'm afraid
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"robust capitalist economy" My dude, real wages have stagnated for my entire lifetime and most people in my generation will never be able to own a house
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An entire economic and ideological alternative to capitalism died in my lifetime because it wasn't able to provide for people's most basic needs. So I'm always going to be a fan of capitalism, where shoes fit and the toilet paper at least doesn't hurt to use
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it died because capitalists bombed and psyop'd it to death, because they're terrified of a world where they don't own everything
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Seriously, try the toilet paper.https://www.ebay.com/itm/233662525297 …
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"Socialism had bad toilet paper, which excuses the twenty million people capitalism kills every single year."
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Not having toilet paper was very good for political education and environmentally friendly. I fondly remember reading about latest socialist achievements and then using Pravda and Izvestiya as toilet paper.
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