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Anon thinks about human history (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (24 children)

It really breaks my mind. And the actual biggest progress is in the last 150 years. And how things accelerated in the last 30..

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    We went from first powered flight to landing on the moon in just 66 years. Bananas!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Speaking of Bananas, the artificial Banana flavoring that tastes nothing like the bananas you get in the store actually tastes like Gros Michel bananas, which are functionally extinct. You can order a bunch from some special greenhouses, but they're something like $20 a pound.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Yeah but then what? All we did was make the mhz smaller and more efficient and all we got were Teslas the self-driving suicide machines.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    You're right, there have been no technological or scientific advances since the moon landing other than Tesla cars.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Oh come on, projections from the sixties had us having huge space colonies by now. Growth in the exploration sector has been anything but exponential.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I find it humorous that you're sitting around being irritated that we don't live in the future imaginings of the boomer generation from 60 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Don't judge me for wanting a nuclear flying car!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I'm judging you for not dreaming your own future and instead relying on dreams of the future that are 60 years old.

    60 years old. That's how old your idea of the future is.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Heh, I get it. I don't really want flying cars. I want walkable cities and cycling highways. But I do feel a bit nostalgic for a future we didn't have where at the very least we would have some serious exploration of Europa by now (and some other likely candidates for alien life).

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  • [+] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    But why didn't it start 20,000 years ago

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Cause no steam engines or copper wires or antibiotics. Hadn't even invented metalworking afaik.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Humans just barely survived during most of our history.
    Then a warming of the climate made agriculture possible, which lead to a surplus of food that could be used to feed people who were doing something other than gathering food.
    Those people invented writing and that made real technological progress possible for the first time.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The last 30 have been cool technologically. But for real life changing things? You probably saw more in other 30 year periods.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Internet? AI? AIDS Cure? There is quite a lot recently

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    We had internet 30 years ago. Which proves my point really, that 30 year period when the internet introduced was more significant.

    AI is at the moment is an aggressive autocomplete. It will be something in the future.

    Aids treatment. Yeah that's pretty good. Does it change the life of the average person? No.

    Now take something like phones. You could talk to people far away. That was life changing. Past 30 years we just changed from landlines to cell and internet access.

    TV? Life changing. Now we have bigger ones.

    Cars? Life changing. Now we have bigger ones.

    Trains? Life changing.

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