Submitted by CleaverIam t3_xzh807 in singularity
TFenrir t1_isab99m wrote
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When did we get used to a faster pace? We have bio science literally creating new mechanisms that we are using now to cure genetic disease, and to create mrna treatments. That would have been science fiction a decade ago.
Boring material science improvements have allowed for rechargable batteries that are now not only in all our phones, and electric cars, but in a quickly growing industry of electric bikes or even vehicles that just didn't exist a decade ago. I see them every day.
We just created a replacement to the Hubble telescope, have internet slowly being made available via satellite everywhere, and knocked a meteor off track by shooting a rocket at it.
Our internet speeds and advancements in software and hardware allow for things like music and video streaming everywhere, where a decade ago we consumed all our content via disks or downloads. We have AR/VR rapidly making it into normal every day use society. We have smart homes where I literally shout to the ether to control my home or ask where my phone is.
I haven't even touched AI advancements since 2012. Or 2017. Both large milestones. We're now creating AI that I use every day at work, that people are making brand new kinds of applications with, that are generating text, code, and images - and we are on the cusp of AI that can control apps on your computer just by talking to it - don't believe me? Look into Adept and their action transformer.
I actually could go on and on. Almost every single company today has to be a tech company first. Why do you think that is, if tech advancements are slowing down?
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