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Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by reaperducer on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:18AM (#29001448)
I was thinking about this the other day. Its been a long time since anything meaningful was invented.

The last thing i can think of was the internet. Maybe cell phones. There's probably a bunch of medical stuff, but I'm not well versed in that area.

I mean real inventions. Things that didn't exist. Like light bulbs, or automobiles, or steam engines, or rockets, or jet travel. It seems like the era of real invention petered out in the 1950's to 1970's.

Now things like social media and ad targeting and viral videos are somehow considered innovation. Even the one recent thing I'm impressed by - commercial space flight - is just an iteration of something that already existed.

Re:Apple Is Normalising Surveillance by dec0dedab0de on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:11PM (#29002202)
I think Augmented Reality could be a big one, but it's being wasted on nonsense and filling in short term engagement targets.