• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The 19th and 20th centuries saw so much technological advancement and we got used to that amount of change.

    That’s why people were expecting Mars by the mid 80s and flying cars and other fanciful tech by now.

    The problem is that the rate of advancement is slowing down, and economies that demand infinite, compounding growth are not prepared for this.