Psamathe wrote: ↑4 Oct 2022, 1:09pm
Things like Moore's Law and Smartphones do make you reflect on how fast technology has progressed but for me a real shocker about how far and how fast we have moved was an article today:
I was aware of launch dates, etc. but not appreciated it was just 65 years - really surprised me as to how far we have progressed not very long ago.
Ian
Technology has progressed from complex & useful to more complex & more useful. But useful for what? Unfortunately, we humans seem to be in one of our regressive phases with various humans institutions across the planet degrading rapidly from "civilised" to .... well, several rather unpleasant conditions and states all too familiar to our ancestors. Fine technologies are accelerating the degradation at fantastical rates.
I know our own once-comfortable Blighty-bubble hasn't fully deflated yet but it's definitely been popped and the air can be heard rushing from it now, making a crude pharty noise (aka Tory conference speeches). In the background, several large technology engines can be heard chewing up large swathes of human bodies and minds (again).
But perhaps an enlightened and benign despot will emerge from the current churn rather than the usual sort? Can't see one just now, though. Plenty of the other sort hoving into view. Some have been sitting on their little heaps of mob for some time now. Others are poised to return to theirs, after a bit of trampling on things to clear their path, with a reinforcing of their throne underpinnings and a doing away with pesky drag-anchors like voting, justice and society.
Everyone must now be an entrepreneur, with those not only willing but also able to sell their granny (for fertiliser in the biofuel industry) destined for greatness! Just ask the dishonourable fool for the C18th with that queer old suit and a permanent smirk on his snurk.
We're all doomed, I tell 'ee! I'm sure I've seen nearly every member of the "government" in an Hieronymous Bosch painting.
Cugel
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes