Dude, look how fast technology is developing >*proceeds to fly on a an airplane developed in the 60s* >*drives car using gasoline engine developed in the 1890s* >*proceeds to take take painkiller or anti-cold medicine developed in the 19th century* >*proceeds to build house using bricks, wood, concrete and metal through methods perfected and unprogressed since victorian times* >* massively gets electricity from coal plants developed in the 50s*
Why are computers considered "all technology" today?
Juan Clark
Because the next big discovery for humanity is not going to be a new material to build houses out of, its not going to be some new method of transportation. its going to be (and some would argue it already is) about using computers to do stuff for us.
One example if food preparation. 50 years ago people used to spend more time preparing food and because of this they ate healthier. you cant eat 5000 Calories in one sitting if you're responsible for cooking all of those calories. now, for humans to get healthier we wont go back to actually spending more time to cooking. we will use technology to find a way to do it for us. Food printers or simply automation of healthier food prep.
Thats just one example. we already know how to build strong buildings, we already know how to get from A to B in a quick and efficient way. the only reason we are still using coal is because it is cheap.
Robert Adams
no need to reinvent the wheel
Jordan Edwards
>the only reason we are still using coal is because it is cheap. And because the coal companies have a strong interest in keeping things that way.
Matthew Watson
>2026 >vr is finally affordable for the masses >nobody goes outside >everyone lives in matrix-esque pods hooked up to facebook-reality
Technology is gonna replace all that shit :^)
David Hernandez
>everything is the same as when it was first invented We had "VR" in the 80's but it was shit compared to now.
Elijah Phillips
From someone who actually works at the kitchen, you're fucking clueless.
Cooper Anderson
Can't wait for it
William Hall
you work in a kitchen because you're good at, and presumably enjoy, cooking. Most people don't. It's a chore that they put up with to eat more healthily and/or more cheaply. Invent a robot that can do it - or just healthier pre-made processed food - and a majority of the population will take that over cooking their own meals every time.
David Allen
Daily reminder that Nikola Tesla pretty much invented the entire modern world himself..
Landon Collins
>, we already know how to get from A to B in a quick and efficient way. Space travel is super slow Aircraft are horribly fuel inneficient No affordable supersonic airliners No affordable VTOL commercial jets No cheap private aircraft that cost as amuch as a middle class car to buy and operate No manned hypersonic aircraft No electrical powered supersonic aircraft
>we already know how to build strong buildings We still cant build space elevators, 1km+ high skyscrapers, earthquake and hurricane proof buildings, or buildings that can be massproduced the same speed as cars. >the only reason we are still using coal is because it is cheap. Thats like saying in 1900 that horses are muchcheaper than internal combustion engines therefore they should continue to be used as a main form of transportation forverer. Im thankful people in the early 20th century didn't have the reasoning of today.
James Green
>Im thankful people in the early 20th century didn't have the reasoning of today. Henry Ford said his customers just wanted faster horses; they weren't really interested in cars. But horses needed a lot of care, feeding and attention. They got tired. They got sick, they died.
Alexander Powell
do you guys think we'll enter another golden age of progress like 1940s to 1970s?
Jeremiah Foster
Tesla is the crowned king of meme science.
The few actual contributions he made to society were just continuing the work of previous scientists. That's completely fine, of course, because successive collaboration is the foundation of scientific progress, but he doesn't deserve the idiotic amounts of praise that get heaped on him. He was also a pathological liar. Read through his notebooks: they're filled to the brim of elaborate descriptions of experiments he clearly never did and wild claims of his abilities, like his "I built a tiny earthquake device that almost leveled a city" bullshit or his "I could split the world in half in an instant if I wanted" horseshit. For every real contribution he made, there are ninety nine pure fabrications.
So why is so fucking popular? Because he appeals to both science-worshipping autistics and scientifically-illiterate idiots, both of whom are highly active on the internet. The former group likes him because he's everything they aspire to be — single-minded, asexual, completely devoted to science, unable to communicate or interactive with others, etc. — and also because people like that absolutely live for contrarianism. They'll desperately cling to anything that makes them seem smarter than the average person ("oh you think edison is important?"). The latter group likes him because he spent 90% of his time sitting around making heaps of vague statements about energy and vibration that sound 2deep4me, but have no actual meaning whatsoever. Through the constant barrage of shitty memes about him, anybody in the middle ground who spends time on the internet gets so much exposure that they start to like him, too.
Fuck Tesla and fuck the idiots who would suck his dick if he hadn't chopped it off so he could focus on his pseudoscience.
Tyler Roberts
There's already frozen dinner and instant noodles.
They are not particularly popular outside of student demographic.
Cooking is not going away
Jason Peterson
VR was good in the 90s though.
Kevin Thomas
Jokes on you, I flew on a 787-9.
Connor Cooper
>massively gets electricity from coal plants developed in the 50s >not living beside a nuclear power plant
Samuel Torres
>*drives car using gasoline engine developed in the 1890s*
I'm an ICE engineer and this pissed me off.
Someone doesn't understand the thing called exponential improvement.
Oliver Ortiz
They're not healthy, just dirt cheap. It needs more time to be prepared than ordering garbage for cheap, but it's even cheaper.
>the only reason we are still using coal is because it is cheap. Same thing.
Zachary Gomez
>1km+ high skyscrapers Isn't the Burj Khalifa basically 1km high?
>earthquake and hurricane proof buildings, Pretty sure we can, people in MURRICA just don't do it because they're dumb and cheap.
Eli Wright
>We still cant build ... earthquake and hurricane proof buildings We literally can, it's just not economical for everyone to do it.
Caleb Phillips
Per mile fuel burn vs a car aircraft are more efficient