And we’ll all have flying cars, too. Just like the ones they promised us 50 years ago.
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You’re right that 50 years ago, it was thought that the civilization would be much further along than it is today.
However, I buy the argument that the rate of technological change has been accelerating lately. That the technological changes we’ll see in the next—even 20 years will be much like the big technology changes of 1890-1910.
I disagree. Leftist ideology has so completely infected scientific thought today that I'm positive that the late 20th - early 21st century will someday be referred to as the Second Dark Ages.