Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 09:31:30 UTC No. 16459480

>>16459467
While much of this tech was invented in the 1980s, real change only happens when it becomes practical for everyone, not just when it exists. Even in Europe landlines didn't resch every home until the 90s, and now the entire world, including Africa can be connected to the rest of the world with the phones in their pockets. Given the pace of progress in history, things have actually moved quite well.

The real problem, though, is the collapse of the Argonaut ethos, that spirit of adventure that drove progress in every era. In the 19th century, popular books were all about exploring the unknown. Now, that drive is gone. Instead of reaching for the stars or coming up with groundbreaking ideas, we’re using tech mainly to rewatch 20th-century content in higher quality in our small devices. The technology started to make us smaller, rather than bigger. But that's a cultural problem, not a technological one.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 09:47:48 UTC No. 16459494

>While much of this tech was invented in the 1980s, real change only happens when it becomes practical for everyone

That's jsut another midwit narrative. There's nothing going on right now that will drastically change people's lives when it becomes practical.
The world would not change drastically anymore. And like I said if you go back to the 80s, there's nothing to miss.
80s already had everything that a man could need to live a long fullfiling life, easy access to knowledge, good healthcare, decent communication technology, travel to anyhwere in the world within a day

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:47:45 UTC No. 16459521

>>16459494
>easy access to knowledge
>1980s
How old are you, kid? Internet made it possible.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:53:14 UTC No. 16459528

>>16459467
>>16459494
I've seen these posts paraphrased over and over in various forms and every single time you come across as one of the biggest fucking morons I have ever wasted time reading on this board.
Short answer is you're wrong but every time you get told why you're wrong you somehow tap out of the discussion without ever conceding you were unable to refute a point another anon made, and then a lot like Hitler's description of the (((slimy evasive arguer))) you coalesce again to make exactly the same argument the next thread, apparently completely unaware of any of the by now many many times you were unable to argue your point successfully.
If you're that convinced of what you say, just fuck off, stop coming to discussions on topics you're convinced offer nothing at all, and ideally take a big sharp blade and remember that it's down the road, not across the street.
You stupid fucking spamming faggot. You'll never amount to anything and nobody will ever remember you.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 11:31:00 UTC No. 16459549

>>16459521
The question is how old are you? Encyclopeidas existed before the internet, popular streamlined books on any subject you want to know about in the libraries.
Robust public education that gives you robust basics, competent teachers you can ask questions and recieve generally correct answers.
The only thing different nowadays is that you have the ability to look up factoids that you misinterpret or forget about in a few days.

As far as ability to become intelligent and knoweldgeable, the barriers nowadays aren't any lower than they were in the 80s.
In fact it's worse now, because you spend so much time mindlessly scrolling, arguing with retards on the intenret that you never learn anything.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 11:42:05 UTC No. 16459555

>>16459467
how ironic.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:11:24 UTC No. 16459565

>>16459528
>>16459480
/thread
OP is a retard.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:15:19 UTC No. 16459568

>>16459549
>In fact it's worse now, because you spend so much time mindlessly scrolling, arguing with retards on the intenret that you never learn anything.
How is that even remotely related to technological progress, you fucking retard? You give retard a computer, he puts in the washing machine. If you want to make a thread about dysgenics go ahead, but don't pretend this is a tech issue.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:24:03 UTC No. 16459574

>>16459568
The internet is like crack for retards and middle intelligence people, it has sapped their energy and zeal.
And for intelligent people it hasn't really added much of value. It's just as easy to learn stuff as it was in the 80s, with public libraries, functioning educational institutions and plenty of material.
The only thing the internet added is the ability to look up factoids, and factoids are not the heart of education.

And all in all, it's not as big a technological advancement as people make it out to be and has done very little to enrich people's lives. And it's gonna be the last paradigm shift for better or worse.
40 years from now, your nephew is going to be scrolling tiktok on a smartphone that looks identical to the ones we have now and we've had since 2016.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:45:21 UTC No. 16459581

>>16459528
It's just the kind of opinion someone has who doesn't realize how little they know. its common with the teen who has just started to notice and think about the world but hasn't reached any kind of genuine awareness of self. many such cases.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:52:19 UTC No. 16459583

>>16459581
No, teens are watching Kurzgesagt thinking technology is on an exponential curve and that this is the best time in human history to be alive.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:54:23 UTC No. 16459585

>>16459568
You are responding to a known spammer, it's not advisable to do so.

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:02:17 UTC No. 16459595

>>16459583
i disagree. But either way it's a very uninformed opinion

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 13:14:03 UTC No. 16459606

>>16459595
It's very informed. What's uninformed is you playing the pop-science social game, is you diving into pop science thinking you're enlightened because you know Stephen Wolfram claims the universe is an evolving cellular automata, or that String Theory is bust, you're so smart you watched that one Angela Collier video? oh me too! I love Sabine, she really sticks it up to particle physicicts!! haha just one more collider bro am I right?

Moore's law exponential growth in transistor counts, actually Moore's law is failing! No, new architectures how promise, fin-fet, all-around gate transistors.
New Nividia GPUs to build AI using transformer architectures, new emmergent abilities thanks to scaling laws, inference compute could help solve all of humanity's problems.

You realize what's the point of this "stream of consciousness?". It's regurgetating all the garbage, pop science you and other members of this board immerse yourself in.
Failing to learn anything at all, you can't synethesize information. You need some midwit like that Harari guy to give you a narrative to cling to.
Simple rules of thumb "Better technology leads to better technology, positive feedback loop!" "Technology of last decade getting more practical" "Technological progress is a series of S-curves".

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 14:49:47 UTC No. 16459686

>>16459467
OP is holding his phone in one hand and his weiner in the other wondering why nothing ever changes.
Sounds like user error to me, OP.

Stop guessing start learning at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 15:00:22 UTC No. 16459691

>>16459480
I kind of agree with this thesis I think of exploration and discovery as taking risk.

Society and governments have become incredibly risk adverse.

Stifling creativity.

Look at the combustion engine. This isn't technological progress per say this is a work of art. Cylinders firing in perfect sequence and time to move the crankshaft.

This is art.

Creativity is what's missing which is a cultural thing

Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 21:52:32 UTC No. 16460069

>>16459467
>There's literally been 0 meaningful technological progress in 40+ years!!
Yes
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Stagnation

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:14:49 UTC No. 16460985

Vr wasn't really a thing in the 80's and it's something I couldn't live without at this point. People who say shit isn't changing are out of touch retards.

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:28:24 UTC No. 16460998

>>16459467
>0 meaningful technological progress in 40+ years!
Odd thing to say.

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 16:34:43 UTC No. 16461083

>>16460985
>Vr wasn't really a thing in the 80's
Not sure what you mean here but there were projects and Sci Am had plenty of coverage. People had great expectations.

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 16:40:59 UTC No. 16461089

>>16459467
>There's literally been 0 meaningful technological progress in 40+ years!!

In a way you are kind of right.
We COULD have made reusable rockets 40 years ago
We had the Internet
We had flat TVs
We had digital photography
We had personal computer
Etc.
BUT you have to realize knowing that something exists, and ACTUALLY making it and having the world use it, takes TIME and the will to do it.
We stopped going into space because politicians wanted to spend the money on welfare queens.

Anonymous at Sun, 3 Nov 2024 17:24:22 UTC No. 16461126

>>16459467
>There's literally been 0 meaningful technological progress in 40+ years!
What abou-
>NO! THAT DOESN'T COUNT!