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Re:The Great Software Stagnation by mixmastamyk on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:31PM (#25608922)
Realistically yes, but as a kid promised flying cars and off-world colonies it's less impressive. Blade Runner is now set in the past shrug. These are mostly hardware I suppose.

Instead we got social networking, ad tech, and surveillance capitalism.

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Re:The Great Software Stagnation by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:38PM (#25608981)
Meh, people always bring up the "flying cars" bit but I'm going to call bullshit that these were ever really feasible, not from a tech perspective but from an economic, energy and safety perspective.

The tech for flying cars already exists, just not the tech for protecting people on the ground from flying car crashes.

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