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by SirLJ 3311 days ago
Just think for moment, only 50 years ago people had no idea about internet, smart phone, cell phone cd Rom, MP3, app, social media, YouTube, web page, pvr, Netflix, amazon and so one and so forth... after another 50 years, the world could be a very different place...
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tedsanders 3311 days ago
50 years ago Arthur C Clarke made some very decent predictions about the future. He correctly called global satellite communications, for instance. And if anything, his predictions were too optimistic. Genetic engineering hasn't changed humanity, we still haven't colonized the moon or Mars, and we're still a long way from general AI.

http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/arthur-clarke-predict...

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PeCaN 3311 days ago
66 years from the invention of the airplane, we landed a man on the moon. 50 years later, we regularly fly from New York to Tokyo in 3 hours via supersonic upper-atmosphere aircr—wait a second, that's not how that turned out at all.

Same thing is already happening with technology. Progress in the last 10 years has been comparatively minimal, and it's definitely not speeding up. But at least we have IoT lightbulbs.

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