George Jetson was able to support his whole family off his single job working one hour a day, two days a week and his job was to just push a button.
The people in the past were Incredibly optimistic about the future.
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The labor of the Flintstones made it all possible
I laughed! As a late born Gen X’er though and watching the Jetsons growing up, having a robot vacuum in my house is pretty amazing. I always think back to the show about how the kids would complain about doing their chores even though all they had to do is press a button lol
I got my mom a robot vacuum for Mother's Day. She named it Rosie.
I think that's misuse of the rectangle. If your rectangle can say things like that, you need to fix that (i.e. disable notifications or, better, get off of most social media or greatly tighten whom you interact with there).
I wouldn't say it's the platform's fault or consider it misuse of those experiencing that.
We should be using online spaces and platforms to engage with one another. We could use these to reach out to each other across the world for a variety of positive purposes. It's just unfortunate that most platforms are filled with hate and a lot of people out there would rather have negative experiences and some engagement, than no engagement at all.
Obviously that's not exactly healthy but that's how some people seem to be. I also question how healthy society would be if we all eventually ended up in the position of refusing online interaction for this reason.
I mean we could have had most of that or a close version of it. Still not sure flying cars are a good idea without a large amount of regulation.
But, we decided computers talking to each other was way more important. And, here we are. Computers talking to each other faster and better than ever. Celebrate the achievement of communication that has been turned into stream of revenue and almost unending growth. See how well we now communicate with each other. Much better than we ever did before. What a grand human achievement we have made.
Now to be quite honest, we do have "flying cars" ( more so riding planes ). And a lot of countries are throwing looks at 4 day week work, which isn't 2 but still, progress ( Except Greece IIRC which went back to 6 day a week ).
Now I am really baffled why the hell did space conquest stopped tho.
It costs money and the upsides are more than a quarter away :(
Yeah real answer is that our economic and political systems are incapable of planning for the future
Because it isn't profitable right now. The first time you see someone successfully mine an asteroid, or sell property on the moon, is when you'll see the space race explode again. Until then there's not really any money out there.
I get the sentiment, but also 1960 was objectively worse in many ways
Stop giving a fuck
Simply don't have any of those garbage apps on your phone ? Oh wait you wont. Keep using x and tiktok and whatever depression machine comes next.
You realize you're one of those notifications for OP, right? You could have just not made the world a worse place, simply by not commenting
I picked up this old Star wars book from the late 70s, it's a kid's book about space.
There's a page where C3PO points out that humans will have habitable space cities on the moon and Mars by the year 2000!
I still get a kick out of that, and how hopeful yet unrealistic we are when looking at the future
When I was around six, so around 1998-1999 I got an Encyclopedia of tech and science and that talked about moonbases too.
Based.