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> The internet and computing is certainly a big shift, but from a visible changes to the world perspective I think 2022 is more alike 1922 than 1922 was alike 1822.

Lolwat? Handheld devices that have the power to process millions of calculations a sec, to record Ultra HD videos, to establish a video conference instantaniously with anyone in the whole world.

Thousands of satellites that orbit the earth constantly. Space missions that are already flying past the limits of our galaxy.

Bio-mechanical organs, giving the crippled back the ability to walk, the blind the ability to see, the deaf to hear.

Welp, I do think that technological progress has been growing at a logarithmic rate, and it's probably keep growing at that pace...

I think the one point in which the author was super correct is, when he says that the progress will be made on technology, rather than the "emotion that arises between a man and a maid" - as I understand it, emotional intelligence - , which will remain stagnant.

parent weisk 4 years ago

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