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They are definitely not on the same scale. People stand today in a subway holding their black mirror and think, "wow I'm in the future" not realizing the subway they're standing in was built 50 years ago and barely works.

My whole point is that we have growth only in one narrow area and almost no where else. Biotech has some exciting stuff going on, but it's an overregulated sector that is unlikely to advance as quickly as computing has.

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Honestly I'm a just a simple fisherman, which is a trade that has only really evolved with the introduction of better gps in the last few decades. Maybe you are right. I don't think so, but maybe.

On one hand that is tedpilled and cool and I'm still not worried about climate change but on the other I am actually pretty hype for virtual living and am hopeful that medicine will come along far enough in my life to make me functionally immortal. Guess we will see.

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Things are still progressing, but the pace is slowing. The last 200 years may end up a fluke in human history. We had thousands and thousands of years where people used animals for propulsion and burned wood. From one civilization to another things improved but not in the dramatic way we've seen since the Enlightenment and VR may end up being a distraction that dooms us to stagnation.

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Oh true VR would probably be the death of all progress. Nobody is going to work on science when they can just live in a perfect virtual world. Most people see that as a bad thing but for me that is achieving utopia.

What we have right now is nowhere near true VR though.

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