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Video: Neat - Blueprint For The 21st Century

This video is too pessimistic about some things - private space exploration being the most obvious example, but also about how fast computing power will increase. In other ways, however, it's too optimistic - note the lack of any sustained human backlash to the growth of robotics. As if unions didn't exist... or terrorists:

If half of this is true, we're in for some genuinely exciting times. Of course the problem with technological utopianism is, well, it's utopian. Not that a little utopianism is unwelcome these days - the intellectual trend today seems to be more towards dystopia, and not without good reason.

References:
* The 21st century

Previously:
* Neat: Human-Machine Interfaces
* Water On Mars!!!
* Neat: Ancient Pyramid Found... In Europe

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