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W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 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

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  • 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.

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    • 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

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gene editing we did NOT see coming this soon.

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• Klear@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We’re futuristic as shit.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s just the future sucks

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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      • a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        God I hope I get accepted into the Apple burbclave

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  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, we’re cyberpunk futuristic instead of whatever futuristic flavor the Jetsons were doing.

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  • 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

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We killed our trajectory by shutting down nuclear investment.

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  • 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.

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