Has the future arrived?
Google buys robotics companies. Drones. China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space. Exciting times :-)
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"China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space." - previous century's achievements.
"Google buys robotics companies." - no result yet, they still have to figure out how to add ads to robotics.
No, future has not arrived.
"Google buys robotics companies." - no result yet, they still have to figure out how to add ads to robotics.
No, future has not arrived.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
-- William FaulknerThe Orwellian aspects certainly seem to be here.
Future will never arrive. It is present always.
Bad news: it is only the present. Always.
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> History is pre-determined by scientific laws which are sequentially discovered by people and which, in their inexorable application, produce technology.
— Bruce Bimber. "Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism" (http://web.mit.edu/sts/pubs/pdfs/MIT_STS_WorkingPaper_11_Bim...). 1990.