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Re:After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to thi... by kharak on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:26AM (#23478123)
>has it really changed that much in 10 years

I'm inclined to follow Peter Thiels view here. We were promised flying cars and got 140 (now more) characters on Twitter.

Tech has changed. But everything else is so much the same it almost hurts.

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Re:After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to thi... by monadgonad on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:13AM (#23487548)
> We were promised flying cars and got 140 (now more) characters on Twitter.

This is entirely due to tech financiers like Peter Thiel investing in software to the exclusion of other forms of technology. He could be funding flying cars in the way that Elon Musk is funding space travel.

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