I already had a cellphone on 2001. Now my phone has internet. Thats about the only progress we've had. Very sad.
Amazing how little technological progress we've had since 9/11
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We've made tones of progress-women and URM breaking into previously closed off professions. This is just not the kind progress you privileged people care about. You celebrate moon landings and ignore true movement forward.
So you don't care whether humans successfully land on the moon or the rockets just fail on the launchpad as long as everyone is represented equally at mission control? That's a weird way of measuring progress.
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there has been almost zero major scientific progress since around 1960 so that isnt surprising (almost no fundamental contributions in any major field since then).
Most modern technology is just working through the consequences of science that was discovered 50-60 years ago, there just isnt enough progress being made in fundamental science to keep providing the impetus for new technology.
Science essentially died 50-60 years ago and noone really seems to notice or care, since most journals are still full of thousands of completely irrelevant minor results produced by whatever mediocrities infest modern universities.
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I just love watching random vids of city scenes of the late 90s/early 00s. Nobody autistically staring at their phones. People actually interacting with each other. The society still majority w.h.ite. These times will never come back.
I'm really not surprised people would rather stare at their phones than interacting with you.
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- massive progress in data science
- massive progress in private and reusable space tech
- electric self-driving cars
- gigantic expansion in virtual interactions
- huge advancements in solar tech
- 30+m books scanned and made searchable
- big progress in AIDS drugs and immunosuppressants
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- massive progress in data science
- massive progress in private and reusable space tech
- electric self-driving cars
- gigantic expansion in virtual interactions
- huge advancements in solar tech
- 30+m books scanned and made searchable
- big progress in AIDS drugs and immunosuppressants
etc- CRISPR/Cas
- smartphones
- Higgs Boson
- nanotech
- LEDs
- flat screen TV
- Human genome fully mapped -
We've made tones of progress-women and URM breaking into previously closed off professions. This is just not the kind progress you privileged people care about. You celebrate moon landings and ignore true movement forward.
"...previously closed off professions"
What the hell are you talking about?
Anna Schwartz coauthored "A Monetary History of the United States" 60 years ago.
There have been female economists since your great grandmother was in diapers.
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No real progress in data science, its just faster computers. The algorithms are mostly the same as 20 years ago once you remove all the dumb hype like GANs- massive progress in data science
- massive progress in private and reusable space tech
- electric self-driving cars
- gigantic expansion in virtual interactions
- huge advancements in solar tech
- 30+m books scanned and made searchable
- big progress in AIDS drugs and immunosuppressants
etc
Space has been an enormous regress, its amazing you'd put that up as a point of progress. Humanity sent a man to the moon 60 years ago, and we have now lost the technology to do this again. Noone has ever been back, and every modern attempt to do it again has failed. We have literally lost the ability to do one of the most profound achievements in history. The oriignal moon landings were meant to kickstart a super exciting program of space exploration with manned missions to Mars/etc, and this has been an utter and colossal failure
self-driving cars arent here yet
solar tech lol who cares, we solved the energy problem with nuclear power over 60 yeras ago and we havent capitalised on it due to stupid politics. Another example of an enormous technogical regress. We are literally trying to put solar panels on buildings when we are capable of splitting the atom and building nuclear stations. Absolutely absurd.
books scanned - who cares
AIDS reserach - who cares