Rule of thumb for predicting: much of what you can imagine won't happen. Much of what matters will be things you can't imagine. 1/
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Replying to @St_Rev
2017 is basically 1987 plus Internet and smartphones. Who saw that coming? Who understood that this meant porn taking over the world? 2/
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Replying to @St_Rev
Life extension was a hot topic in 1977. So far there are no working life extension technologies as such. None. 3/
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Replying to @St_Rev
A lot of human progress since say 1955--staggering technological and cultural complexity--is in sound synthesis and transmission. 4/
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A lot? Compared to genetic engineering, high density integrated circuits, nanotechnology, and titanium drivers?
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Replying to @PalimpsestMan @ClarkHat
Advances in genetics have been fantastic. Consumer-level applications, particularly medical, have been next to nil.
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Norman Borlaug would beg to differ. As would most farmers using Monsanto products.
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Replying to @PalimpsestMan @ClarkHat
Borlaug a) did his most important work long before 1987 b) didn't use genetic engineering.
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Daily life of an average citizen has hardly changed at all--except for persistent networking and consumer information tech.
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