Think about it. Capitalism is awesome if you’re the one who started it. 30-50 years later, its fuck everyone else.

All the great tech innovations happened early on and peaked many years ago. Anything innovative now doesn’t pay, so its onto the grift and theft of data, wages, etc.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We won’t see the peak until society collapses and all the systems required to fuel that technology fall apart.

    We’re currently at a point in history where scientists agree is past the tipping point for global warming, and now data centers are using obscene amounts of water to cool their AI machines.

    We have unmarked “government officials”, kidnapping people off the street. Fascism is on the rise world wide.

    How is this moment in time not the exact definition of what you’re describing?

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      I won’t argue with any of that, but I will point out that we’ve thought the end of the world was right around the corner hundreds of times in the past few thousand years, and we just keep going, so, I’m not going to make any assumptions about the end of the world, because 100% of those predictions have been proven false.

      There will be more new technology next year, and if we avoid an apocalypse, there will be even more advances five, ten and fifty years from now.

      I’m not saying it doesn’t suck, I’m just saying that claiming that technology peaked with the steam engine, when we live in a world where we can send messages across the globe in less than a second is just incorrect.