Comments by "rob" (@rob338) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

  1. Wonder if Elon watched Space: 1999 as a kid? Remember the travel tube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGw3Pq6N4ks Ironically a vacuum would be much easier to sustain on the moon. Mile-long tunnels, not so much.
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  2. Thing about technological advance is funny - the past 30 years we've seen a massive boom in computer tech which has been a fairly big change, especially the communication systems. But... Is pretty easy to argue that technological and social change was much more rapid for whole chunks of the 20th Century. Imagine someone born in 1900 - by the time they were in their late twenties we went from no planes to planes that could fly hundreds of miles, radio and telephones becoming widespread, cars a common sight, advances in medicine, cinema becoming mass entertainment, warfare discoveries and massive social changes as the old order collapsed after the war. Someone born in the 40s saw even bigger changes - from Spitfires to moon shots, computers with ICs, antibiotics, birth control pills, organ transplants, satellites, helicopters, psychedelic drugs, TV, hi-fi systems, washing machines, jetting across the world and so on. The social climate of 1969 was massively different to 1940. Meanwhile for us stuff is pretty much the same outside of faster chip tech. There's great work being done in the sciences (thumbs up for the vaccine docs) but we're not really seeing large-scale change in our day to day life. We're not richer or able to work less, can't regrow organs, aren't making that much progress curing cancer, no moon bases and culturally things seem to have ground to a halt a decade ago. Mass control via social media and endless super hero films isn't really what I expected in the future even if the phones are cool.
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  3.  @WreckedRectum  Heh, agreed. But realistically the Internet of sorts has been around for about fifty years though admittedly only accessible to the masses since the 90s.
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