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Do you hate being alive in 2015 considering technology?

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Remobz

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It is a mere 100 years since man first took flight and the technological advances after.

I am convinced that life exists in other galaxies and universes far away.

Problem is that anyone reading this will be dead long before we have the technology to do so.

Imagine what man could accomplish 1,000 years from now or longer?

Are you alright with the fact that we will miss it all and we were alive too soon in the greater scheme of things?
 
No. I feel sorry for whatever planet encounters a species that can travel hundreds of thousands of light years. Why? Because, those that can't obviously are of such inferiority technology wise, the coming apocalypse won't even be televised, as it will be over before they know it.

If it us, humans, that manage this, I feel sorry for whatever poor planet we do find. We are stripping them dry of any and all usable resources and there is little they can do about it (similar to what we are doing to Earth). If it is some other superior race, well, I don't feel particularly sorry, as most of you are shitheads.
 
They'll probably find extra-terrestrial life in my lifetime, but not what everybody pictures it to be. Most likely microbes, or simple animals at most. That would still be groundbreaking scientifically.
 
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Imagine what man could accomplish 1,000 years from now or longer?
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You can apply this to ANY time, even in 500 years people will say... "Imagine what would be in 1,000 years..."

Fun fact: Every single person, no matter when they live(d), is always living in the most advanced and most modern society. Somehow, this is...mind boggling 🙂
 
flexy said:
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Imagine what man could accomplish 1,000 years from now or longer?
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You can apply this to ANY time, even in 500 years people will say... "Imagine what would be in 1,000 years..."

Fun fact: Every single person, no matter when they live(d), is always living in the most advanced and most modern society. Somehow, this is...mind boggling 🙂
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Not if ISUS has their way.
 
flexy said:
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Imagine what man could accomplish 1,000 years from now or longer?
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You can apply this to ANY time, even in 500 years people will say... "Imagine what would be in 1,000 years..."

Fun fact: Every single person, no matter when they live(d), is always living in the most advanced and most modern society. Somehow, this is...mind boggling 🙂
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Look at it this way. What if God came down and gave you an option to travel to the future when man could travel to other planets in the solar system easily.

Would you accept the offer and live in the future with such technology? Or decline?
 
I certainly don't hate being alive now. Now is the best time to have been alive thus far, after all. I would also like to see what happens in the future though.
 
Remobz said:
Look at it this way. What if God came down and gave you an option to travel to the future when man could travel to other planets in the solar system easily.

Would you accept the offer and live in the future with such technology? Or decline?
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Yes because why not. Looks like we have an after-life since God offered it to me. I'll just tell my family I'll cya on the flipside.
 
Remobz said:
Look at it this way. What if God came down and gave you an option to travel to the future when man could travel to other planets in the solar system easily.

Would you accept the offer and live in the future with such technology? Or decline?
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What if God offered to jump you 100 years into the future. And when you said yes he did. As soon as you arrive 100 years into the future, he offers you a chance to jump another 100 years and so forth. When will it end?
 
flexy said:
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Imagine what man could accomplish 1,000 years from now or longer?
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You can apply this to ANY time, even in 500 years people will say... "Imagine what would be in 1,000 years..."

Fun fact: Every single person, no matter when they live(d), is always living in the most advanced and most modern society. Somehow, this is...mind boggling 🙂
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The invention of transistor-based computers did blast our civilization forward by a very significant leap.
Electronic computers are now doing the work of......I don't know, maybe a few billion human computers doing the same kind of work? More?

A PS4 has an absolutely absurd amount of computing horsepower compared to what the first transistor-based computers could manage, and it's just a consumer-level device for playing games. Think of what a proper supercomputer is capable of, or even just a single Google server cluster.

That kind of technology also permits the manufacturing of goods in a very rapid and repeatable fashion. It's a very sophisticated set of tools we've created in just the past century. While I'm sure there were some advances made back in ancient Mesopotamia, the main thing done at that time to increase human productivity was to make more humans.




*The computer in that ad looks like it might be an IBM 604, or at least something in that family.
In those days one of the commonest problem areas was matrix arithmetic: sets of simultaneous linear equations, and so on. I had had to do several sets of sixth order, to pretty high accuracy, in my thesis work. On the Marchant that took most of a day, and the time went up as the cube of the order - that is, a set of twelve equations would have taken eight times as long; say a full week.
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Most of a day to do a sixth-order equation?
If that ad is anywhere close to accurate, and their "Electronic Calculator" really replaced 150 engineers, then the computing horsepower available today is closer to several dozen Earthfulls of human computers.
 
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I personally feel that the time I was born was good. I got to see the evolution of tech as it is now. VCRs and CRTs going to DVDs and LCDs, the birth of the internet, NES video games to highly realistic graphics, overall increased used of computers, and more powerful ones. But at same time, in the NES era this tech did not consume us, we still played outside a lot. We had metal slides and very tall monkey bar park structures. It was a blast. Now all that stuff is taken down for liability bullcrap.

It was a good balance. I'm still young enough that I will probably get to see a lot more things evolve. Some for the worse (ex: being forced more into cloud based stuff and more surveillance and more regulations) but perhaps some for the better (medical advances etc). I think it's a good time to be alive in general.

I think the future may be grim though unless we completely change the whole system where everybody needs a job to survive. As automation and tech improves I foresee tons of job losses in the next decade, and we already are in a situation where there arn't enough good paying jobs for everyone. Minimum wage jobs don't count you can't live off that due to increased cost of living. Heck even those jobs are often being eliminated.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I personally feel that the time I was born was good. I got to see the evolution of tech as it is now. VCRs and CRTs going to DVDs and LCDs, the birth of the internet, NES video games to highly realistic graphics, overall increased used of computers, and more powerful ones. But at same time, in the NES era this tech did not consume us, we still played outside a lot. We had metal slides and very tall monkey bar park structures. It was a blast. Now all that stuff is taken down for liability bullcrap.
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I'm glad I grew up in the 80's. I biked all over the city for hours. Played outside. No Internet or binge-watching Netflix to get sucked into inside for hours, no real reason to stay up all night because there wasn't much good on TV. Ate ice cream out of trucks that drove around playing music. I was allowed to walk to & from school. Halloween wasn't renamed to "Storybook Character Day" (I wish I was kidding). We actually did stuff on the weekends, like BBQ's.

It's such a different world out there. I'd hate to be dating & have a Facebook account...your entire history with other people listed for the world to see, whereas before it was just in memory & maybe a few photographs. I don't think I could ever do online dating...makes me feel old, haha.

In terms of history, I'm glad I live when I do. Medical technology is amazing. Food availability is amazing. I talk to my grandma & it's absolutely nuts what she's seen...born in the early 20's...cars, planes, WWII, all the other wars, spaceflight, computers, etc. It's amazing talking to her about what she used to do with her time & how she would spend her days. Everything is so good these days. Even if you're poor in America, you can still get a government cell phone & food stamps if you want. It's crazy how good we have it!
 
Remobz said:
It is a mere 100 years since man first took flight and the technological advances after.

I am convinced that life exists in other galaxies and universes far away.

Problem is that anyone reading this will be dead long before we have the technology to do so.

Imagine what man could accomplish 1,000 years from now or longer?

Are you alright with the fact that we will miss it all and we were alive too soon in the greater scheme of things?
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Kaido said:
I'm glad I grew up in the 80's. I biked all over the city for hours. Played outside. No Internet or binge-watching Netflix to get sucked into inside for hours, no real reason to stay up all night because there wasn't much good on TV. Ate ice cream out of trucks that drove around playing music. I was allowed to walk to & from school. Halloween wasn't renamed to "Storybook Character Day" (I wish I was kidding). We actually did stuff on the weekends, like BBQ's.

It's such a different world out there. I'd hate to be dating & have a Facebook account...your entire history with other people listed for the world to see, whereas before it was just in memory & maybe a few photographs. I don't think I could ever do online dating...makes me feel old, haha.

In terms of history, I'm glad I live when I do. Medical technology is amazing. Food availability is amazing. I talk to my grandma & it's absolutely nuts what she's seen...born in the early 20's...cars, planes, WWII, all the other wars, spaceflight, computers, etc. It's amazing talking to her about what she used to do with her time & how she would spend her days. Everything is so good these days. Even if you're poor in America, you can still get a government cell phone & food stamps if you want. It's crazy how good we have it!
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Oh man I forgot about the ice cream trucks! They were awesome. Ours were more like bikes if I recall, with a big cooler/freezer in front.
 
flexy said:
>>
Imagine what man could accomplish 1,000 years from now or longer?
>>

You can apply this to ANY time, even in 500 years people will say... "Imagine what would be in 1,000 years..."

Fun fact: Every single person, no matter when they live(d), is always living in the most advanced and most modern society. Somehow, this is...mind boggling 🙂
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That's not necessarily true. We went backwards quite a bit with the Dark Ages.
 
Why should you hate life over what may or may not happen 1000 years from now?

Would I like to see all of the undoubtedly awesome technological advances we'd made by then? Sure, but there's probably also a ton of stuff that'll happen over the next 1000 years that I won't want to see.

If you want to be fascinated by technological advances there's more than enough amazing stuff going on right now. Just have to go to specialist websites and journals to hear about it in any detail.

For example, with CRISPR we have an unprecedented ability to edit the human genome. Once we decipher some of the complexities of DNA (which will likely take decades, but not out of reach) we could cure all sorts of genetic diseases or even control our own evolution. Granted CRISPR is the work of decades, but it's only recently become usable in the last several months. For the first time in human history we have the tools to do that, just need the knowledge of the human genome so we know what to cut to produce which results.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
I personally feel that the time I was born was good. I got to see the evolution of tech as it is now. VCRs and CRTs going to DVDs and LCDs, the birth of the internet, NES video games to highly realistic graphics, overall increased used of computers, and more powerful ones. But at same time, in the NES era this tech did not consume us, we still played outside a lot. We had metal slides and very tall monkey bar park structures. It was a blast. Now all that stuff is taken down for liability bullcrap.

It was a good balance. I'm still young enough that I will probably get to see a lot more things evolve. Some for the worse (ex: being forced more into cloud based stuff and more surveillance and more regulations) but perhaps some for the better (medical advances etc). I think it's a good time to be alive in general.

I think the future may be grim though unless we completely change the whole system where everybody needs a job to survive. As automation and tech improves I foresee tons of job losses in the next decade, and we already are in a situation where there arn't enough good paying jobs for everyone. Minimum wage jobs don't count you can't live off that due to increased cost of living. Heck even those jobs are often being eliminated.
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I like this post. So what is the solution, a dystopia like The Giver?
 
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