Post AdVVQ9wKBkC37oziLY by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdVVQ8qGGnkVij9MG0 by srijit@shonk.social
       2024-01-04T15:41:56.210Z
       
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       @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social You stated here:The more intensely capitalist we become, the less revolutionary our scientists are able to be:Can you please provide an explanation?
       
 (DIR) Post #AdVVQ9wKBkC37oziLY by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
       2024-01-04T15:56:17Z
       
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       @srijit Sure!Since we had neoliberalism slapped down on us, starting in the 1970s, we’ve seen a declining rate of technological advancement, and especially in those areas that might have promised liberation from drudgery. David Graeber famously asked “what happened to the flying cars we were promised?” A lot of effort has been poured into technologies of monitoring, control, and financialization, but very little into the gee-wiz stuff we were promised for decades as our due.We got very good at special effects; we can very readily conjure the *illusion* of a more advanced future. We just don’t actually deliver on it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdVVQAs6iuPk121rPc by feld@bikeshed.party
       2024-01-04T16:02:41.088424Z
       
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       @HeavenlyPossum @srijit you have the world's information at your fingertips, video calls with people on the other side of the planet, modern medicines and surgeries, titanium and other unique alloys are available to the public. We figured out how to almost perfectly control the layout of atomic particles with nanotechnology (semiconductors, artificial diamonds). Technological advancement is *declining* since the 1970s? I'm not convinced.