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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.
While those are cool, none of them help an average person, except maybe the trains, and definitely not in the US lol.
We dont need self driving cars. Plus they are being survielled and controlled by corporations, so really that is a step backwards in my book. Cars were perfect in 05, only downhill from there. We dont need touchscreen in cars.
Electric cars existed before gasoline cars... And you know what still doesn't exist? A repairable, mostly analog electric car thats affordable. Doesn't exist.
We dont need walking robots. Thats just asking for robot soldiers to control the population.
Vr is fine, again not needed.
Drones are mainly used for war.
Speech synthesis, again mainly going to be used for scams and putting voice actors out of jobs, identity theft. Not much upsides to it except your phone can talk. My mac did that in 1998.
The medical advancements id agree are good.
But really, none of those things you listed are really all that great to the average. Thats why im saying its peaked.
mRNA vaccines largely ended the most widespread global pandemic in human history just 5 years ago.
Climate change would disagree.
What's stopping you from buying a used 2012 Nissan Leaf for about $6k? Or how about a 2014 BMW i3 for about the same price? Neither of those are Cell network connected or touchscreen heavy cars.