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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 1264673" data-attributes="member: 14664">Yeah, you're right - there is a lot of incredible new stuff out there, which we often overlook. I suppose a good example is to ask how we would have reacted 20 years ago - to the idea that one day we would all be carrying around tiny mobile communication devices through which we could talk, or send messages, to anyone on the planet.But nowadays we all carry mobile phones around without a second's thought.I suppose what I'm saying is that we haven't got the SFish kindof stuff. In computers / communications / entertainment, things have progressed hugely. There are things (such as today's computer games) that would have blown us away twenty years ago.But if you go back to the early seventies, when they had spy and communication satellites launched by expendible rockets, and a space station (skylab) serviced by three-man capsules also launched by expendible rockets, how impressed would they be to find out that the only thing that would have changed 30 years later is that the space station (serviced by *two* man capsules launched on expendible rockets) has *two* docking ports, and that the TV satellites are powerful enough to beam to small home dishes?I suspect not very. In fact, I suspect that they'd be more impressed with the portable DVD player on the space station, and the fact that the the satellite TV offers late-night programming of a morally dubious nature.I suppose what I'm saying is that aside from kitchen improvements, improved communcations, and the ability to transmit hard-core pornography to every home on Earth - what "great advances" have we actually achieved in the past 30 years?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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