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Cyberpunk dystopia (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We ran out of things we need about the time we learned how to filter water and grow wheat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm ok with the further progress into antibiotics, vaccines, surgery, all that good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I'd be a cripple if not for our progress with surgery. I'm very glad to live in an era of modern medicine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Apparently, some politician tried to shutdown the patent office in the nineteenth century because "everything that can be invented has been invented."

edit: no need for "I" there.