Comment on Anon thinks about human history

CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• khannie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We went from first powered flight to landing on the moon in just 66 years. Bananas!

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Speaking of Bananas, the artificial Banana flavoring that tastes nothing like the bananas you get in the store actually tastes like Gros Michel bananas, which are functionally extinct. You can order a bunch from some special greenhouses, but they’re something like $20 a pound.

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but then what? All we did was make the mhz smaller and more efficient and all we got were Teslas and self-driving suicide machines.

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    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re right, there have been no technological or scientific advances since the moon landing other than Tesla cars.

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      • joostjakob@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh come on, projections from the sixties had us having huge space colonies by now. Growth in the exploration sector has been anything but exponential.

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• stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it is called exponential growth

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  • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But why didn’t it start 20000 years ago

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    • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It did, we were just in the boring part of the exponential curve where it’s basically flat

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      • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and we will currently be in the flat part compared to the next few thousand years (at least if humanity survives until then)

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    • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cause no steam engines or copper wires or antibiotics. Hadn’t even invented metalworking afaik.

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      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They should have just googled it

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    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Humans just barely survived during most of our history.
      Then a warming of the climate made agriculture possible, which lead to a surplus of food that could be used to feed people who were doing something other than gathering food.
      Those people invented writing and that made real technological progress possible for the first time.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Evolution.

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  • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It trully is

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The last 30 have been cool technologically. But for real life changing things? You probably saw more in other 30 year periods.

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  • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Internet? AI? AIDS Cure? There is quite a lot recently

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We had internet 30 years ago. Which proves my point really, that 30 year period when the internet introduced was more significant.

      AI is at the moment is an aggressive autocomplete. It will be something in the future.

      Aids treatment. Yeah that’s pretty good. Does it change the life of the average person? No.

      Now take something like phones. You could talk to people far away. That was life changing. Past 30 years we just changed from landlines to cell and internet access.

      TV? Life changing. Now we have bigger ones.

      Cars? Life changing. Now we have bigger ones.

      Trains? Life changing.

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