idk, it’s unclear to me that computers and the Internet are more subtle than cars or radios. it’s also, 50 year old americans today have seen the fall of the soviet union, the creation of the european union, enormous advances in civil rights, 9/11, the 2008 crash, covid, the invasion of ukraine, etc. this isn’t exactly WWII level but also nowhere near a static stable world.
Seems a lot less subtle than radios at least! Cars are a different story, they are big and loud and everywhere. But phones are small and loud and everywhere...
I think they are because in practice they just didn’t produce the same amount of economic growth. And for most people, their direct impact of these things are entertainment applications, or using them at work (where sometimes they feel like they make things worse). Meanwhile I remember hearing a story of a woman (someone’s grandma) who was in awe of the washing machine they had just bought because well, it had saved her hours of daily gruelling work. And that’s more impactful to one’s life than almost anything computers or the internet have done.
I have heard Peter Thiel make the point that almost all the recent significant advances are concentrated in the digital world, whereas change in the analog world has been very marginal.
idk, it’s unclear to me that computers and the Internet are more subtle than cars or radios. it’s also, 50 year old americans today have seen the fall of the soviet union, the creation of the european union, enormous advances in civil rights, 9/11, the 2008 crash, covid, the invasion of ukraine, etc. this isn’t exactly WWII level but also nowhere near a static stable world.
Seems a lot less subtle than radios at least! Cars are a different story, they are big and loud and everywhere. But phones are small and loud and everywhere...
I think they are because in practice they just didn’t produce the same amount of economic growth. And for most people, their direct impact of these things are entertainment applications, or using them at work (where sometimes they feel like they make things worse). Meanwhile I remember hearing a story of a woman (someone’s grandma) who was in awe of the washing machine they had just bought because well, it had saved her hours of daily gruelling work. And that’s more impactful to one’s life than almost anything computers or the internet have done.
I have heard Peter Thiel make the point that almost all the recent significant advances are concentrated in the digital world, whereas change in the analog world has been very marginal.