A number of people has been saying that the US has not been leading technologically. So if not the US, which country is doing better technologically?
Japan? Even if it's Japan, its economy isn't doing that well either.
Garry Kasparov: The Last Revolutionary Technology Was The Apple II
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#22It's rare I want to call someone with conservative technological estimates unrealistic. Usually I see the opposite. But I don't think Kasparov is on the mark here. The cellphone was invented after that and has forever changed the way we reach people and fundamentally how they are reachable. Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map. There was no way of anyone know…
"Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map." Yes. I miss those days.
you can always leave your cell phone at home, but for many the cellphone is an integral part of going somewhere. planning en route, picking alternative an rendezvous etc.
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#23Maybe Garry's limiting his discussion to computer-y tech, but for me, I think biologics-as-drugs is pretty damn revolutionary. Having an number of antibodies that can stop rheumatoid arthritis in its tracks is pretty amazing in my book.
Tech? Portable music/video players have totally changed how I travel, flash memory makes those little plastic thingies from Star Trek work and room-temp color sensors (digital cameras, etc) are pretty amazing.
Then, there's gene sequencing... PCR, ...
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#24A number of people has been saying that the US has not been leading technologically. So if not the US, which country is doing better technologically? Japan? Even if it's Japan, its economy isn't doing that well either.
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#25A number of people has been saying that the US has not been leading technologically. So if not the US, which country is doing better technologically? Japan? Even if it's Japan, its economy isn't doing that well either.
Innovation may be down in the USA, but it's definitely better than in other places. The potential is there - the same cannot be said for anywhere else in the world.
Europeans take their ideas to the U.S. because in Europe there's no money for innovations. There's no infrastructure for it. China is trying the wrong approach and producing nothing. Japan has incremental improvements ingrained in its culture.
However I think he's right about the stimulus and money. The big government approach doesn't produce anything innovative either. We're building roads in the USA - that's good, but... not gonna change the world now is it? Printing money is currently undermining the USA - it's surprising inflation isn't much worse than it is but at some point something will have to give. It reminds me a bit of the housing bubble - for years house prices were going up, way into silly territory, and beyond. But eventually, the market corrected itself. Now, we're printing US$ Tns every year and there seem to be no negative effects - but that, also, is going to eventually hit home. It's going to make America a country of cheap labor. Inflation will catch up.
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#26It's rare I want to call someone with conservative technological estimates unrealistic. Usually I see the opposite. But I don't think Kasparov is on the mark here. The cellphone was invented after that and has forever changed the way we reach people and fundamentally how they are reachable. Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map. There was no way of anyone know…
Ubiquitous cell phones are definitely a revolutionary development. This becomes obvious when you read or watch fiction of any sort. How many story lines would be completely disrupted by the presence of a cell phone? As it turns out, a great many, even for stories being written today, as many writers haven't fully absorbed the way things have changed.
This drives me nuts whenever I read anything by Connie Willis. Her time travel books play (partly, obviously) decades in the future yet there are constantly people running around and frantically looking for each other and not finding anyone. I always want to scream “Pick up your goddamn cellphone!” (Some of those were written in the nineties which explains their lack of cellphones but even her most recent books from this year have the same problem.)
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#27It's rare I want to call someone with conservative technological estimates unrealistic. Usually I see the opposite. But I don't think Kasparov is on the mark here. The cellphone was invented after that and has forever changed the way we reach people and fundamentally how they are reachable. Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map. There was no way of anyone know…
"Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map." Yes. I miss those days.
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"Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map." Yes. I miss those days.
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Your story is missing critical parts and makes no sense as written. It is unclear to me how not having a cellphone resulted in the law telling your brother's account that it is now mandatory for him to flee from the cops.
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#30It's rare I want to call someone with conservative technological estimates unrealistic. Usually I see the opposite. But I don't think Kasparov is on the mark here. The cellphone was invented after that and has forever changed the way we reach people and fundamentally how they are reachable. Do you remember life pre-cellphones? When you left your house you literally dropped off the map. There was no way of anyone know…
Ubiquitous cell phones are definitely a revolutionary development. This becomes obvious when you read or watch fiction of any sort. How many story lines would be completely disrupted by the presence of a cell phone? As it turns out, a great many, even for stories being written today, as many writers haven't fully absorbed the way things have changed.
It's funny to watch Seinfeld with this in mind. Virtually every episode's plot is unbelievable given cell-phones.