Has there been a single truly groundbreaking innovation in the last 10 years?
7266 sats \ 37 comments \ @benwehrman 26 Nov 2023 tech
Story time:
I had my 10-year high school reunion earlier this year, and one moment from the day really stuck out for me.
As part of the event, we all got to revisit a questionnaire we filled out back in 2013, asking a series of questions where we made predictions about what ourselves, and the world would be like in 10 years.
One of these questions was: "What new invention or innovation do you hope will exist in 10 years?"
Most of us put something stupid, like flying cars, or similar.
But I thought about it for a while...and asked a few of my friends nearby:
What truly groundbreaking new innovation HAS there been in the last 10 years? Or heck even the last 20?
None of us could think of any. Just microscopic improvements on already existing tech knick knacks like TVs, phones, and other miscellaneous devices.
Of course, this led to me ranting about #Bitcoin for half an hour, how innovation has completely tanked in recent history due to the monetary destruction of fiat (h/t @saifedean for this video which really led me onto this:
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So, I bring this question to the interwebs:
Can you think of a truly groundbreaking new innovation that's been introduced to the world in the last decade, which tangibly improved human lives at scale?
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5G sounds silly but I don’t think the true potential of 5G has been unlocked yet
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51 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 27 Nov 2023
Don't you think it was over hyped? That's my opinion. Really it's an evolution not revolution.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 27 Nov 2023
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210 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 27 Nov 2023
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72 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 27 Nov 2023
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 26 Nov 2023
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44 sats \ 2 replies \ @TwoLargePizzas 26 Nov 2023
I think the disconnect is between 'invented' and 'widely adopted'.
Many of the inventions that changed the world in this decade where actually invented in the previous decade. And I think the same will be true for inventions from this decade to the next.
It's crazy to think the first iPhone was launched in 2007. The bit we forget is that they didn't suddenly appear in everyone's pockets. That took years.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 27 Nov 2023
The smart phone is a pretty good one but not big enough to me.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @stargut 26 Nov 2023
Generalized AI, chatgpt is revolutionizing web browsing experience. Could argue that it has made information finding a lot easier but at the detriment of people's critical thinking abilities.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 26 Nov 2023
YES!
The transformer architecture for neural networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
Case in point - this paper is way over my head and many of yours, but you can ask charGPT to summarize it for you and ELI5. ChatGPT, after all, is only possible due to the breakthrough presented in the paper.
Truly mind blowing!!!
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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 26 Nov 2023
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 26 Nov 2023
Cuz that was ~15 years ago*
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 27 Nov 2023
He said "even 20"
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @fm 27 Nov 2023
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @kepford 27 Nov 2023
Small scale nuclear reactors could be in the next ten years.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @kepford 27 Nov 2023
Wow, so many have been blown away by "AI". It may end up being revolutionary but it sure isn't yet guys. I can't name anything. Everything is incremental improvement. AI is as well.
EV's guys? Really? They have been around since at least the 90s and they are better but no revolutionary. The Internet was revolutionary. Bitcoin will prove to be. I see nothing even close to those two.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 27 Nov 2023
I grew up without the Internet. My grandparents grew up in a completely different world. My parents saw man walk on the moon and the Internet. The rate of technological progress has greatly decreased in my lifetime.
I hope things like CRISPR save people from cancer but it has yet to be proven. Lost my mother to cancer and I can tell you my impression is that we are in the dark ages with cancer treatments. I believe in 100 years people will think of our treatments like we think of blood letting now.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @drfred 27 Nov 2023
no innovation for a very long time
it is a regression from a very high development to the lowest ever look at really old buildings, monuments, art
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @netstatic 27 Nov 2023
A lot of things can be reduced to deriving from an earlier discovery/invention. The plane found precursors in gliders and its first use was nowhere close to what we have now. The first cell phone was like a brick and weighed over 2 pounds and before that we had land lines. The internet was revolutionary but it stemmed from existing computer networks like arpanet and utilized technology from older networks like the telegram and phone lines.
Looking at innovations just from Apple we went from 8mp to 48mp iphone cameras, the invention of Apple pay, and the new M1 chipset that blew other chips out of the water when released. HD tvs transitioned to 4k as the standard for new purchases. A wireless VR headset (Oculus Quest 2) was created and sold for $300. Web assembly was announced and deployed to all popular web browsers making the way for robust web applications like Figma. Deep learning has been on the rise ever since AlexNet in 2012. Chatbots have evolved to pass the conversational Turing test. The MOOC model of education has flourished.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 27 Nov 2023
improved human lives at scale?
Nothing on this page has done this in the last 10 years.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ridsa 27 Nov 2023
AI, EVs, also I'd point out just having the ability to work from anywhere in the world with a reasonable wifi connection in many jobs where WFH was unheard of before covid
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Also... drones. I feel like they have come a long way since 2013.
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