There is no individual. There is only network. System. Systems create. They output. They produce. They produce well and tremendously when the system is healthy. Make the system healthy for once. I mean again.
we are creators
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MasterBluster@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
MFW I’m in a technology singularity racing full bore toward its conclusion.
missandry351@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
And now there are flat earthers and anti vaxxers. Everything going backwards.
Part4@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
we are creatorsWe enjoyed a short period of exponentially increasing complexity due to a massive amount of ‘immediately free’ energy afforded us through the burning of fossil fuels.Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
My grandfather lived from 1871 to 1971; from Kitty Hawk to one small step on the moon.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel like the pictures over-exaggerate the difference a bit. The wright flyer was literally made by two people in their spare time while the space program was around 4% of all federal spending and had almost half a million people working on it in some capacity.
ComRed2@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
The creation of the airplane and the creation of the movie studio.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
This humanity fuck yeah stuff really rings hollow when you look at the trajectory of the world. What does any of this matter if we just kill ourselves by ransacking the planet or blowing ourselves up?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
All supported by the giant shoulders of some tiny apes that jogged behind fauna for 4 million years, and ate some berries along the way.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry if it’s already been pointed out but they just kind of skipped over boats
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
And yet I watched a crap film the other week where somebody went back in time 20 years, and the only difference was everyone had flip phones instead of smartphones.
So the era of progress is over.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My Great Grandfather lived that change. He went from walking, horses and buggies, steam engines, with no telephones or electricity, to sitting on a couch next to me and watching the first Apollo moon landing. He saw more insane changes to this world than we will ever probably see. But…
It took 2 world wars and millions of dead to drive all that change in that time period of one life. War is the great driver of technological leaps. I’m not sure I feel the need to drive tech advances that fast at the cost of all those lives. Slow and steady might be a better path to travel.
Still, within my lifetime, which much like my Great Grandfather I’m nearing the end of, there have been great changes that everyone just takes for granted. The internet has caused a great disruption in the world. You have access to nearly all the information this world has in an instant. No matter where you are. No more going to a library to look up outdated information in a card catalogue. You can talk to nearly anyone on this planet at any time. When I grew up, we had a party line we shared with 5 other families. And using that phone was expensive. You got billed for each phone call for the duration of that call. You can do business with almost every business on this planet directly. Or Amazon/Walmart/Temu yourself to death if you want. All we had as the Sears or Wards catalogue to mail order from. And then you waited a month to get your order.
You can affordably travel to London, Paris, Tokyo, and nearly everywhere else in a matter of hours. There are re-usable space rockets now. And while the stars might still be just out of reach, there is nowhere in the solar system we can’t go if we really want to. The planets are ours for the taking as soon as we want them. Even true self driving cars are a solid possibility now.
Those are just a few of the things I’ve seen change. And there are many more. But we seldom notice and just take them for granted.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
War is the great driver of technological leaps
Maybe for capitalist countries because an external threat is the only motive that will get the bourgeois to fund science instead of consolidating power, but the USSR and Chinas rise were during peaceful times.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even their technology was driven by war. No human civilization has been immune that. Maybe in story books, but never in the real world.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
My great-grandfather grew up with horses and carriages and saw man set foot on the moon and the early days of the internet. He saw the rise and fall of the USSR. What will I see?
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What will I see?
The fall of all the rest of us.
Taleya@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Dude i’m fucking genx, i grew up under the threat of thermonuclear annihilation, a destroyed ozone layer, AIDS and more.
We only fall if you fucking roll onto your back and let it happen
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There are people who have seen Russia collapse twice, and if we’re lucky, there will be people who see it three times.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
where are my rocket socks?
phdeeznuts@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
I’m certainly not.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
100 years from now we will have unlearned all of that.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Still find it absolutely amazing the moon landing happened in the 1960s, back when the Boeing 707 was popular. just amazing what humanity can achieve with the right priorities
kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let’s say we went to space. No need to bring landing on the moon in it. That thing with Kubrik still bugs me, and the Cold War was pretty intense.
Zron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We went to the moon.
If we hadn’t, the Soviet’s would have been screaming it from the rooftops. The soviets tracked all the Apollo missions themselves, and even had robotic missions going on at the same time as several of the manned US landings.
The Cold War was intense. You think if the US hadn’t made, the soviets would have just let it slide?
kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think you know much about Russian culture or history.
They have long hard winters and they plan years ahead.
Also, your president is a Russian asset now, and they have successfully blackmailed to many members of both parties possibly even Supreme Court justices.
Just to get a little bit of a sense of what the USSR was around the time of the moon landing this is a pretty good start. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev
Anyway, my experience here on Lemmy is that very few people are capable of looking into so-called conspiracies with a fresh pair of eyes. If the actual version of the events wasn’t reported on BBC and CNN at the time of happening some people will never accept another version of history.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s cute. But let the grown ups talk.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Didn’t they leave a retro-reflector on the surface of the moon after the first mission? This seems pretty definitive to me.
psud@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Have you not seen 2001 A Space Oddysee? Kubrick couldn’t have made a fake moon video as realistic as the film from the crews of the six landers that landed and filmed on the moon
How would Kubrick’s film have fake livestreamed to the different downlink sites? Low orbits are much much faster than orbits at lunar altitude (90 minutes versus a month). How could a LEO broadcast satellite pretend to livestream from the moon?
How could they fake it so well Russia couldn’t tell? Russia could pick up and decode the signal from the moon when the moon was up. Radio direction finders were a thing back then
kingofras@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Probably because it was live streaming from the moon. That doesn’t mean that is where the footage was taking place.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s been 53 years since we stopped sending humans to the moon. Now we have the world wide web, touch-screens, voice recognition, human simulcra, and CRISPR.