Boomer Humor Doomergod

This is my hell.

Humans are the literal worst.

I know of one, and it’s my kid. And they’re just as frustrated as I am about how little their peers know about computers

I call folks who drive them “rural identifying persons”

They don’t make sedans anymore. They’ve gone the way of the station wagon

I got a hitch sized hole in my bumper because some asshole backed into my parked car and drove off.

I think we are, but by your logic the real breakthrough was fire, because without that we wouldn’t have electricity.

I mean, we do have a cannons and guns age.

I agree that it’s been iteration, but the pace of iterations seems to be slowing down. Since the Internet was invented there hasn’t been a game-changing technology created.

Lots of things that claim to be it - Bitcoin, metaverse, now AI - but nothing like what we saw in the 19th and 20th centuries.

And I think that’s because huge population growth and a relatively unknown world led to huge advances very quickly. Now to make similar advances you can’t be a polymath like Newton or Tesla. You need huge investments.

Case in point: Physics. A lot of the fundamental physics from the 19th and 20th centuries can be re-created with simple materials and a little expertise. People can replicate the double slit experiment with a $2 laser pointer and a piece of foil.

But to make new advances in physics you need particle accelerators and supercomputers, and many highly educated people working together.

Steam power gave way almost immediately to electricity, which gave way to nuclear technologies, which gave way to information technology, all building on what came before.

And then there’s all the various transportation technologies that happened at the same time. Going from the first flight to the Moon in under 70 years it’s no wonder, to me at least, that people thought we’d be on Mars by now.

Especially with Walt Disney putting a Nazi rocket scientist on TV a bunch of times.

Technology had been advancing at a breakneck pace for over a century. It’s not crazy for them to think that would keep happening.