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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by lisper on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:20PM (#23213977)
> genome project? Renewable energy? Practical neural networks?

Isn't that enough? (And you left out quantum computing. Smart phones. GPS. Composite materials. Autonomous vehicles. I could go on.)

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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by throwaway8941 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:35PM (#23214116)
Not to mention a whole new JavaScript framework every other week.
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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by blueridge on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:35PM (#23214658)
Laughed out loud at this. Nailed it.
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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by tetris11 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:02PM (#23214371)
Humans: A short lived species that produced some interesting grammars.
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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by mercer on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:18PM (#23214523)
Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we figured out how to center HTML elements both horizontally AND vertically!
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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by ben_w on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:02PM (#23214365)
Indeed. Half the things on this list happened after 2010.

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/the-singula...

I wrote it in 2016. I should make a new list.

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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by 7thaccount on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:35PM (#23216552)
I did not leave out quantum computing which is nowhere near practical right now and maybe never will be.

GPS is a good technology. Autonomous vehicles work fine for the 90% use case, but will likely never reach that last 10%.

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Re:Timeline of the Far Future by airstrike on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:52PM (#23214281)
Quantum computers and autonomous vehicles are more promise than fact, otherwise you might want to throw fusion energy in there as well.
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