We’re futuristic as shit.
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W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
It’s easy to see why people thought we would be a lot more futuristic by now.
Klear@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s just the future sucks
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
I always thought those scifi stories where companies basically rule everything were overblown, but you just see it changing to that in real time.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It happened before, it could and is happening again. The East India Trading Company was the most profitable company in the world after looting and conquering India on behalf of Britain.
a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
God I hope I get accepted into the Apple burbclave
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Unfortunately, we’re cyberpunk futuristic instead of whatever futuristic flavor the Jetsons were doing.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Families taking vacations to Venus and swimming in the seas of Europa futuristic?
We still have ways to go
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
We killed our trajectory by shutting down nuclear investment.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 hour ago
We killed our trajectory because the cold war ended and we were no longer engaged in an arms race involving rockets. Once capitalism figures out how to exploit space for infinite growth we’ll get back on track assuming we don’t great filter ourselves first.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
i have a little tablet in my pocket that gives me access to the sum total of all human knowledge and can contact anyone else more or less anywhere on/around the planet for instant voice communication.
We can take organs out of dead people and put them in living people and have them survive.
I can be anywhere on the planet within 48 hours
We have cars that can drive themselves
And there’s many more examples
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Phones can also video call, lead you to just about anywhere you want to go on the planet, and store millions of pictures/videos/writings of a person’s personal history. Unprecedented.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
Yup, i was in three completely unfamiliar cities in the last month that speak languages i do not speak.
I was never lost once, i was able to learn how to take public transport, and i was able to effectively communicate with people who do not speak english
rumba@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Gene editing we did NOT see coming this soon.