fj12ryder wrote:

But seriously, who really uses a smart watch to do anything other than just another gadget. Yeah, the smart watch has lots of computational power, but it's just another doodad that does stuff that is already done by something else. And it will fall by the wayside when people realize it really isn't all that convenient anyway. And Dick Tracy had a wrist radio 70 years ago.

The 8 track tape, replaced by cassette, replaced by DAT, replaced by CD, replaced by MP3 player, replaced by streaming, replaced by the next "revolutionary" process. Implants would be a pretty exponential improvement.

Batteries are only really incredible if you're an engineer, most people really don't care, they just want it to work. And again, it's just improvements, batteries are still just electrical storage units. Smaller, more powerful, but same thing.

You want to talk exponential, 65 years to go from primitive powered flight to landing on the moon. That's impressive and earth shattering. Fifty years later and they brag about landing a used rocket stage on a barge. Excuse me if I'm not so impressed.

Perhaps I'm just too jaded to be very impressed with all this "amazing" technology. But to me it's all incremental improvements of existing products and processes. Show me a cold fusion reactor, anti-gravity generator, teleportation, and then I'll be suitably impressed.

fj12ryder wrote:

"The world technology is changing faster than ever..."

I don't really think so, we're seeing improvements in the technology we already have, but no real revolution. Electric vehicles have been around since the turn of the last century, computers are 30 years old, cell phones are about the only real change, and again, just incremental.

fj12ryder wrote:

But seriously, who really uses a smart watch to do anything other than just another gadget. Yeah, the smart watch has lots of computational power, but it's just another doodad that does stuff that is already done by something else. And it will fall by the wayside when people realize it really isn't all that convenient anyway. And Dick Tracy had a wrist radio 70 years ago.

The 8 track tape, replaced by cassette, replaced by DAT, replaced by CD, replaced by MP3 player, replaced by streaming, replaced by the next "revolutionary" process. Implants would be a pretty exponential improvement.

Batteries are only really incredible if you're an engineer, most people really don't care, they just want it to work. And again, it's just improvements, batteries are still just electrical storage units. Smaller, more powerful, but same thing.

You want to talk exponential, 65 years to go from primitive powered flight to landing on the moon. That's impressive and earth shattering. Fifty years later and they brag about landing a used rocket stage on a barge. Excuse me if I'm not so impressed.

Perhaps I'm just too jaded to be very impressed with all this "amazing" technology. But to me it's all incremental improvements of existing products and processes. Show me a cold fusion reactor, anti-gravity generator, teleportation, and then I'll be suitably impressed.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:



The exponential improvements are in their capabilities.

My smart watch has more computing capacity than the computers from 30 years ago.

EV batteries are unthinkable to be feasible and practical 20 years ago. Solar energy and other renewables, are never dreamed to supply all of the state's (eg CA) electricity needs as in present times.

And Elon's reusable rockets than can land on barge? Landing rockets back to earth was once compared to threading a needle from 10 floors up on a gale force winds.

Groover wrote:



Let's put it another way. I kept my 1970 Impala until 2002 largely because very little about the new vehicles seemed to be any better. My fully loaded 2016 F150 is way ahead of my 2013 but already feels obsolete compared to the 2021 version coming out. And in many ways the 2021 F150 will probably be way behind the technology of the cybertruck.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:



The exponential improvements are in their capabilities.

My smart watch has more computing capacity than the computers from 30 years ago.

EV batteries are unthinkable to be feasible and practical 20 years ago. Solar energy and other renewables, are never dreamed to supply all of the state's (eg CA) electricity needs as in present times.

And Elon's reusable rockets than can land on barge? Landing rockets back to earth was once compared to threading a needle from 10 floors up on a gale force winds.

fj12ryder wrote:

"The world technology is changing faster than ever..."

I don't really think so, we're seeing improvements in the technology we already have, but no real revolution. Electric vehicles have been around since the turn of the last century, computers are 30 years old, cell phones are about the only real change, and again, just incremental.