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Re:Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:25AM (#30699219)
> The last technological breakthrough was the smartphone.

That's fairly recent, and pretty damned significant. How often are you expecting such society-changing innovations to occur?

Your list of things we don't have that you want is kinda odd. Is there a need for cloned humans? What huge societal improvements do holograms permit? Why is a consumer product with graphene meaningful but the massive innovation in small, powerful batteries not?

Re:Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored by kenjackson on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:46AM (#30699488)
Also ignores things like electric vehicles at scale (battery and charging tech), mRNA vaccines, blockchain, OCD treatment, DNNs, cable television (I think some of the best works of art are TV series now).
Re:Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored by Victerius on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:30AM (#30699278)
> kinda odd. Is there a need for cloned humans?

Cloned militaries. Eliminating birth defects. Relieving women from the pain of childbirth.

Also to solve the problem of low birth rates, and allow people to perpetuate themselves. Elon Musk could clone himself and raise his copy to eventually take over his businesses after him.

> What huge societal improvements do holograms permit?

Look man, the Jedi didn't use Slack, did they?

> Why is a consumer product with graphene meaningful but the massive innovation in small, powerful batteries not?

Life is graphene. It's fantastic.

Re:Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored by mardifoufs on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:06PM (#30703367)
We could almost certainly get to human cloning very fast; the technology isn't really the botttleneck. It's just that no one does it and for very good reasons. The only way human cloning could be useful and help "solve" any problem would also involve going back to chatel slavery. Why would any research go towards that?

It's not like star wars, human clones would still be human.

Re:Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored by spywaregorilla on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:36AM (#30699362)
> A. Clone. Army.

So... are these clones slaves that are forced to join the army?

> Also to solve the problem of low birth rates, and allow people to perpetuate themselves. Elon Musk could clone himself and raise his copy to eventually take over his businesses after him.

He could also do this with his children?