>>13456562>We haven't invented anything even close to as impactful as electricity, the internet, or cars in the past 20-30 years.Nah we are not in an impasse, progress is being made extremely fast still.
Look at machine learning for instance - recent breakthroughs like AlphaZero and shit - awesome new tech.
Self driving cars too - this is serious tech and applied engineering. At face value it's just cool tech, but this is applied machine learning and advanced software that will run on millions of vehicles...once self-driving cars are solved all of transportation will be revolutionized, and more advanced robotics will follow.
The invention of electricity, internet, cars and shit were all just low hanging fruit to be honest. Science has only existed for like 400 years, we are still only at the beginning.
The way I look at it we are just at the beginning of a crazy revolution. We now have advanced computers EVERYWHERE. Literally EVERYWHERE. Thank god for our ancestors - you can buy an arm 32 microprocessor for like $1. THAT SHIT CAN PERFORM MILLIONS OF CALCULATIONS PER SECOND. We're still barely even utilizing this technology. Everyone here as a multi-GHz processor that is being used ONLY for posting frogs and anime pics on the internet. Once we start to write better software, and have further tighter integration between our machines, shit is going to get so crazy it will be beyond any one persons comprehension (even more so than it is right now).
Advanced robotics and shit are about to change our lives completely. Robot trucks, cars, delivery drones and shit. You can order something on Amazon and get it in 2 days right now. That is a process that has humans in the loop, from the early stages of the supply chain all the way to delivery. How fucking fast do you think it will get once it is ALL automated??? Could we order a book and have it arrive in 2 hours?? Hopefully. Would grocery stores, stores in general, even need to exist at that point???
