I am sorry that I misinterpreted your opening post.

I interpreted you asking the question as implicit agreement with the premise implied/stated in the quotes.

My post above has been revised.

^^^We're good...I'm looking for different viewpoints from my own :)

I think it's more about the experiences of new technology during your lifetime than anything else. For instance, my Dad was born on a rural farm in 1920. He saw his dad that was a teacher that routinely drove the Model T school bus take his first ride on an airplane, a Ford TriMotor. Dad was an engineer, lived til 2018. So he saw a LOT of changes in technology. Me, I don't think I'll experience the leaps and bounds changes of technology that my Dad did.

Don't get too excited about fusion power...supernova are actually alien societies that have turned on their planet-wide fusion power source for the first time.

Well, for me, I could list a few that fit this criteria from after the 1950's.


Internet Message Boards.
Wow!
Brings people together from any place on the globe, and perhaps even orbit.
Can share pictures, stories, these are an amazing innovation of our time.

This is something from the depths of my squishy brain but I'd bet real money on this:

Right now there is a very well funded lab that is working on a method(s) to negate nuclear weapons. Basically if one was deployed it just wouldn't go critical. This system would have to be 100% reliable & if this is successful it would make nuclear weapons redundant.

It could be an energy beam or laser but also something we haven't seen before. (Sonic based?)
This "Anti Nuke program" would be next level & only a handful of people would now about it's existence.

The Israels have a laser based system that can disrupt ballistic missiles & aircraft. It's called "Iron Beam" but IMO most of the info that's been released about this system is propaganda.

Agreed, I read it more as sensitive than sentient.

One of my long time friends just sold all his possessions, and moved to New Zealand with just two suitcases of clothes, and a large bank account. We can still text and email for free, just no more going to lunch or meeting for dinner.

Back in the stone ages of the 1980s I was dating a girl that got a job in Texas. My long distance phone bill was over $100 just to call Texas, so I ended our relationship.

In the 1968 movie 2001, they make a video phone call and everyone thought that would be so cool. Totally commonplace now and no additional cost.

We're on the cusp of space exploration and exploitation. That is going to be monumental.

Also when we hit the AI singularity...yikes. Either human life expands tremendously or we are immediately enslaved and destroyed. Guess we'll find out!

Relax fella. If he was talking about sex-bots, he was likely not serious. Also even if he was, there are all types, and you find plenty of "smart" women with "dim" men, and "smart" men with "dim" women because it suits both parties.

There's a seat for every butt, and butts come in infinite variety.

Relax fella.
Obviously when CP was replying to talking about a bot designed for one purpose to be less complex than women he was likely not serious.
Unless CP thinks women are bots instead of humans?

if it was the joke, what is the funny part?

Where are those flying cars that I read about in Popular Mechanics in the '60's?

We're all supposed to have them by now.

In about 1985 I had a friend of mine tell me they have this inter-office message system from their computers so they can communicate with others. What? Can't you just call them? That will never go over....

I got my Commodore 64 in 1983, and a 300 baud modem. I had to type in a terminal program by hand, and save that to a floppy. I got on-line and jumped on the BBS systems and learned a lot. I sent a "Fido-net" email to a friend in Lawton, OK and it cost nothing at all. I thought that was so cool. I tried to explain it to my co-workers and they all looked at me like I was trying to explain quantum physics. I ordered a pair of Levis via CompuServe. That was my first on-line shopping experience.

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I still have that floppy disc. CompuServe was charged by the minute you were on. I got my first bill, and canceled that right away.

Now everyone buys stuff online.

Glen, the friend that I spoke about above worked for a company that was owned by Compuserv.

How many people (older) wish things would just stay the same?
Dreading every update on your computer, phone, software etc.

CompuServe was a real racket. At 300 Baud the text came down so slow I could read it as is appeared. It took minutes just to get through the menus, which were only text on a black background. When you finally got to a menu with what you wanted, it took forever to get to the exact menu choice. I think those jeans were way more expensive from the front end price of CompuServe. The Mall would have been cheaper, but I did save the price of the sales tax! No sales tax on out of state sales back then.

Yes and no. I see a lot of changes that are just changes to be able to sell a new version.

Some thing are to be able to use new features of a new device. I liked my old iPhone original, but it is nothing like my iPhone 11 Pro, and that is several versions out of date from whatever is latest and greatest.

I am on the latest and greatest updates for Windows 11 Pro. I have grow to like the layout and operation of 11.

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I can't wait for my own personal transporter!