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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You started with after 1955. While much of Borlaug's predates it, he was a huge proponent of GMOs.
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Replying to @PalimpsestMan @ClarkHat
"2017 is basically 1987 plus Internet and smartphones."
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And GPS, digital cartography, much more efficient internal combustion engines, massive improvements in laparoscopy, carbon fibers, ...
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Replying to @PalimpsestMan @ClarkHat
Integrated into the internet, part of the internet, computing tech, incremental improvement, incremental improvement. Respectively.
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Put it this way: You're transported to 1987. What's different? What's missing? You sleep in a bed, eat the same food, drive a car.
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Actually five channels, you forget PBS and usually a UHF station, at least outside Chicago. One night I picked up a signal from Cincinnati.
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And the independent station that had the 8 pm movie and Godzilla flicks on Saturdays. And maybe a Spanish channel.
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Signoff at 1 am with the Lord's Prayer.
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