Will technology ever revert to incremental progress?

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Tadasuke
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road transport 🚚 size/length/volume/dimensions/tonnage

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funkervogt wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:39 pm It might lower shipping costs.
When oversimplifying, road transport went from this:
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To this:
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And it doesn't really get any bigger, because it tends to get totally impractical after this 50-wheeler truck.

Just like German Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (188 tons) from 1941 or German Panzerkampfwagen E-100 (123 tons) from 1943 were highly impractical. Panzer VIII Königstiger (68.5 tons) from 1943 was the practical maximum and Abrams or Merkava Mk 4 tanks weight about as much. It's not a coincidence that tanks haven't got heavier in the last 81 years.
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.
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