Has the future arrived?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905780

by rman666 • 13 years ago

5 6 13 years ago

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Google buys robotics companies. Drones. China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space. Exciting times :-)

thenerdfiles• 13 years ago

History is pre-determined by scientific laws which are sequentially discovered by people and which, in their inexorable application, produce technology. — Bruce Bimber. "Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism" (http://web.mit.edu/sts/pubs/pdfs/MIT_STS_WorkingPaper_11_Bim...). 1990.

gesman• 13 years ago

Bad news: it is only the present. Always.

_random_• 13 years ago

"China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space." - previous century's achievements.

"Google buys robotics companies." - no result yet, they still have to figure out how to add ads to robotics.

No, future has not arrived.

brudgers• 13 years ago

        "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
         -- William Faulkner

collyw• 13 years ago

The Orwellian aspects certainly seem to be here.

imdevelopin• 13 years ago

Future will never arrive. It is present always.

Has the future arrived?

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