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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I agree with the sentiment, but I disagree that technology has "peaked".
Technology constantly grows, and it's moving faster now than ever. We won't see the peak until society collapses and all the systems required to fuel that technology fall apart.
We're currently at a point in history where scientists agree is past the tipping point for global warming, and now data centers are using obscene amounts of water to cool their AI machines.
We have unmarked "government officials", kidnapping people off the street. Fascism is on the rise world wide.
How is this moment in time not the exact definition of what you're describing?
I won't argue with any of that, but I will point out that we've thought the end of the world was right around the corner hundreds of times in the past few thousand years, and we just keep going, so, I'm not going to make any assumptions about the end of the world, because 100% of those predictions have been proven false.
There will be more new technology next year, and if we avoid an apocalypse, there will be even more advances five, ten and fifty years from now.
I'm not saying it doesn't suck, I'm just saying that claiming that technology peaked with the steam engine, when we live in a world where we can send messages across the globe in less than a second is just incorrect.
Meanwhile China is innovating tech.
Yeah but China isn'tthe world, the USA is the world. Haven'tyou seen the movies?!
I agree probably with medical tech its improving. But is that helping a regular person? Or is it for billionaires who want to live forever ?
Tech for the average has definitely peaked, around 10 years ago id say. Everything now is ad ridden spyware. Cars suck and are ad ridden spyware. Everything is built cheaper and lower quality and unable to be repaired (on purpose), like appliances. Its not profitable to build a good fridge.
Theres almost nothing you cant do on a computer from 2010 that you need to do now, except playing the newest games. And the newest consoles now all require monthly subscriptions to games you dont even own. Just examples.
In normal countries, yes regular people do get better medical care when the tech improves. The world isn't just America.