If it's true that these two photographs are only separated by 66 years, does that mean that NASA faked the moon landing on the beach at Kitty Hawk?
No wonder it took that plane 66 years to fly to the moon. It looks really slow.
And technical innovation has been stagnant ever since. Keeping most people, some of whom could be coming up with new ideas if they had time and resources to explore their passions, working dead end service jobs and exhausting themselves just to make ends meet so 12 people can have all the money is more important.
Yes I know the phone in my pocket is more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer by many orders of magnitude, but that's just iterating on an old concept. To me, innovation is jet engines for airplanes, or rockets capable of escaping earth orbit when nothing like it existed before.
What we're really fucking up is the ramp from fossil to advanced energy sources that could enable massive outward expansion into the solar system. The billionaires are forgetting that a larger piece of a smaller pie is still less pie.
mRNA vaccines. Net positive power output from fusion. Off the top of my head.
I agree with your concept of capitalism killing innovation and forcing people into dead-end jobs. But that doesn't mean technical innovation is dead. Just means it's not progressing optimally and not benefiting the right people.
Generative AI too. It might be hammered into everything to the point of being tiresome, but it is technologically impressive that you can have a computer just synthesise a photo/video/music.
Compare to 20 years ago. Being able to just go "Computer, create for me an original landscape painting", and have it make one would be something that you'd only find on television/in movies.
isn't that goochie goo autism old guy halting mRNA research?
Not in any civilized country, no.
I mean for the US. Which is like what, less than 5% of the world population? And now maybe much less??
In 2025, most everyone in the world can translate foreign languages at the press of a button. I dislike Gwern since he's a bigot, but I like his article, "My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s."
We could do that in 2010, which is about where it stagnated.
Google translate isn't much better than it was in 2010, but LLMs do a much better job. Admittedly, Google Translate is what most people use. It works well enough though.
Yeah. Last tine we gor any positive modal shift was smart phones. That was 17 years ago.
A lot of people mark that as the downfall of the internet.
The phones weren't the problem.
Well, they fucked uo design a lot, but tgey didn't ruin everything.
what is even the point of this graph? GDP is a nonsensical metric that barely tells anything about the economy, let alone society and technology.
i think it's not meant too literally, more like a meme, to make fun of people who say sci-fi will forever stay sci-fi while at the same time things change very quickly.
We're still ignoring the history of all flight and rocketry prior to the invention of the heavier than air aircraft, I see.
In other news, this is what computers looked like 66 years ago. Where/when did we go astray?
Citizens United.
Edit: I lie, it was way before this
I agree, I'm surprised that thing doesn't have an ashtray.
flat-screen LCD monitors were a mistake.
Amazing how photography technology improved.
“We dOn’t hAvE ThE ReSoUrCeS To fEeD AnD HoUsE EvErYoNe!!1”
And the billionaire class could pay for it all without even noticing the expense; their refusal to do so is strictly due to their twisted "ethics" preventing them from "rewarding" the "lazy." 😡
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the Moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the Moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the Moon)
Ten years from now I'll be paying still.
(while Whitey's on the Moon)
That guy had a point. And I don't have an answer. Maybe reallocate some of the defense spending that was already insane at that time?
And only 12 years later....
That is when we peaked as a civilisation. When MTV stopped being a music channel that's when things started to go downhill.
Hot take: MTV peaked when they were airing animation, not music
Amen brother.
then The Learning Channel stopped being about learning
then The History Channel stopped being about history
then Fox stopped being about foxes.
66 years is a long time. Considering that 1969 was 56 years ago, we still have 10 years to do something similarly worthwhile.
... 10 years is also a long time. It can wait until tomorrow.
I've had that mindset of "10 years is a long time; what's one more day" since adolescence. Boom, now it's 16 years in the future and I'm suddenly a dysfunctional adult struggling to get through each day.
But on the bright side, I just began medication for ADHD, and it's not only life changing, it's life saving. I feel capable, motivated, and determined for the first time in my life. Let's build the future so that 2035 will be a milestone for humanity!
It's just a question of priorities.
The AI thumbnail isnt real, YouTube faked it in a cooperation effort with the US government to seem like they were winning the AI war between them and China.
I wanted to show real time rendered graphics in the same interval, but there were no real time graphics in 1959.
Still, these two are 33 years apart, so we can do half.
New technologies tend to explode very quickly while there is obvious iteration and improvement from a new principle left on the table and then they settle down as the room for improvement shrinks.
What will come next in 2035? ... at the rate we're going, probably something stupid like femboy hitler
If the news in 2035 must be dominated by a hitler figure, then I will take solace that for some reason this hitler is a femboy.
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