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is technological "growth" stalling?
| Well.....prosthetics are advancing. We may get nanomachines in our water supply and uh....space travel
| I think the internet has brought such a fundamental paradigm shift to how we communicate and reason—to the point that it's eternal and will always be there in some form—like how we still have aspects of the 1st Industrial Revolution in our society.
I think we're going to see more growth built on top of the net, esp. with companies like FB trying to monopolize entire sectors like VR now that people are using adblockers and withholding more of their data.
| nah
when i was a kid i wanted to be an inventor, and i was told by the class' big brain that inventors were pointless since everything that needed to be invented already was.
Then as years past, there would be a new major invention that changed our lives. ipods, smart phones, the mp3, etc etc.
Everytime you think we've peaked, something new comes along or a previously "science fiction" product becomes consumer friendly or financially feasible.
In 2022 we have literal hoverjet skateboards, jetpacks, practical virtual reality, 3D printed prosthetic limbs with working fingers that move based on inputs from either electrodes in our brains or muscle movements in our arms, and et cetera.
Who knows what the future holds next?
| >>837201
I do not find an electric skateboard very impressive at all. Still electronic with wheels, that could have been invented decades ago
| >>837214
There's been a couple others that like, only worked on specially designed surfaces & stuff. But this is the closest to the movie one.
https://youtu.be/Dqe7Iw2MiZ8
| >>837337
That's true. But it's so much closer. That board uses tech that just didn't exist 20 years ago.
Development is still happening, it's just not instantaneous
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I'm annoyed to shit that when I say "hoverboard" people think of that glorified scooter garbage, when in reality, I'm thinking of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIViYYyTqlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kB-BGMXxZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbOG0ERCwM
| one large area of development right now is battery technology. that and developments in solar have meant that solar energy is becoming more viable and a lot of energy companies have started to shift their assets. perhaps a little too late to stop climate change though.
| one of the reasons it feels like consumer tech is stalling out though is that for the past couple years the capitalization of the internet has been in an intensive stage. rather than expanding to find new niches, tech companies have been focusing on making more money off their existing products. very recently, they've started to run dry on that front as well which is why many are now looking to start expanding again in crypto and vr.
| that actually did lead to useful competition between valve and facebook in VR which was actually pretty good for advancing consumer VR.
it did not lead to any useful technologies in cryptocurrency, because cryptocurrencies are fucking useless garbage
| pref is harassing me specifically through the id system
| The Singularity is Near
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| it seems to me that the internet accelerated things at the turn of the century, but the ceiling has already been reached. Anything big coming our way or are we stuck in the age of the internet for a while?