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Post 'em here. :)


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From Tomorrow's World, 1979:

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"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams."

-H.G Wells.
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Undoubtedly things slowed down, but as I've mentioned before, the real issue is that people of the 19-2000s thought that the revolutionary progress we'd seen since the 1940s was still perfectly ongoing and that there wasn't actually going to be an S-curve in between industrial revolutions hitting right as Y2K rolled around.

Seriously, it's probably THE biggest undiscussed cultural irony I can think of. That the inter-revolutionary era between the 3rd and 4th industrial revolutions.... happened in and after the year 2000, the year heralded for decades as The Future™.

Some of these things, I can see coming true by 2030. Other things, like anything involving awful but "trendy" ergonomics, good luck seeing those in anything but VR. There's a reason pyramid-shaped smartphones never happened.
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Interesting post about Roman perceptions of technological progress:
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