"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crappiest generation..."

Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by jacquesm on Saturday April 10, 2010 @04:55PM (#1255673)

> You can't deny that the technological advances in the last 15 years were bigger than than in the last 200.

I can and it's nonsense.

Nuclear power? The Electrical Grid? The Industrial revolution? The transportation revolution? Mass airtravel? Genetics? Electronics?

Versus what ? The internet? Cell phones? Sure it's great but it definitely isn't bigger by any yardstick than what preceded it, in fact plenty of those previous inventions were pre-requisites for those to be possible in the first place.

I'd bet you could live just fine in the world of 15 years ago, but I'd challenge you to live in the one from 200 years ago.

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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by eru on Sunday April 11, 2010 @08:10PM (#1257993)

The internet and cell phones have been around for more than 15 years. (Even the web has been around longer.)

The record in mathematics is pretty good. E.g. compiling functional programming languages made huge strides in the last two decades. And so did linear and integer optimization.

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