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by shadowmore 2152 days ago
This is a point Peter Thiel brings up regularly on a larger scale, i.e. the circular, narrow nature of modern innovation, where instead of improving the physical world around us, we're way too heavily invested in this self-perpetuating "world of bits" that increasingly reduces total innovation in the world.

Incidentally, a great talk that includes that point here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_00POR-Po