Why is material tech, unlike social tech, not susceptible to nirvana fallacy? Why don't we complain that planes aren't teleport devices?
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Software though, is in between material tech and social tech. Sometimes we nirvana-fallacy it, sometimes we don't.
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Theory: with atoms we assume "if it doesn't already exist, there is probably a physics reason." With bits we assume, "it hasn't been tried"
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Teleport, time-travel, FTL, force fields: all "atom" utopias. "Perfect s/w": silicon s/w utopia. "Imaginary Sweden": social s/w utopia
