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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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In the last ~10 years humanity has developed:
New technologies tend to have long lulls while being developed, followed by a rapid series of developments when those technologies become viable and in turn provide the base for new technologies.
Yeah, there's always grifters and technologies that turn out to not be useful, but there's also always tons of people working really hard to create new advances for the benefit of mankind. Capitalism is definitely flawed (understatement) but relative to say, feudalism, continues to be a very efficient way to allocate resources when used in a well managed economy.
how many have had government funding?
What am I, rainman? Regardless, I'm not sure what that has to do with whether "technology has peaked"
Cool, managed to create all that and yet hasnt solved hunger, medical care, homelessness, or anything or substantive value. Any system where your priorities dont lie in improving peoples lives is a flawed system.
Even worse than that, our modern, high-tech capitalist civilisation, no matter its many 'triumphs,' has roundly failed to address what was obvious to anyone seeing the long view-- that without addressing the mechanisms of its own unsustainability, it will still fail, as all earlier civilisations did.
So we're headed for a collapse, faster with every passing day, while overpopulation, overconsumption, and capitalism have arguably been the primary drivers of that. And the richest people and corporations in the world, being uniquely placed to make a huge difference on that front, instead only think of the next quarter's profits, or their personal wealth and safety.
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I agree that there is an upside to capitalism,but by now it has overstayed its welcome and the downsides are starting to outweigh the upsides. To be fair though,we haven't really got an easy alternative.