Think about it. Capitalism is awesome if you’re the one who started it. 30-50 years later, its fuck everyone else.
All the great tech innovations happened early on and peaked many years ago. Anything innovative now doesn’t pay, so its onto the grift and theft of data, wages, etc.
While those are cool, none of them help an average person, except maybe the trains, and definitely not in the US lol.
We dont need self driving cars. Plus they are being survielled and controlled by corporations, so really that is a step backwards in my book. Cars were perfect in 05, only downhill from there. We dont need touchscreen in cars.
Electric cars existed before gasoline cars… And you know what still doesn’t exist? A repairable, mostly analog electric car thats affordable. Doesn’t exist.
We dont need walking robots. Thats just asking for robot soldiers to control the population.
Vr is fine, again not needed.
Drones are mainly used for war.
Speech synthesis, again mainly going to be used for scams and putting voice actors out of jobs, identity theft. Not much upsides to it except your phone can talk. My mac did that in 1998.
The medical advancements id agree are good.
But really, none of those things you listed are really all that great to the average. Thats why im saying its peaked.
mRNA vaccines largely ended the most widespread global pandemic in human history just 5 years ago.
Climate change would disagree.
What’s stopping you from buying a used 2012 Nissan Leaf for about $6k? Or how about a 2014 BMW i3 for about the same price? Neither of those are Cell network connected or touchscreen heavy cars.
*except the trains, vaccines, 2 new types of computation, cultured meat, wireless charging, stem cell treatments, neural interfaces, gene editing**
**and whatever unknown advances are unlocked by those and the other technologies
Rubbish opinion. Read more Marx