"The year 2000 as some German artists had imagined ..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 06 Nov 2018 4:32 p.m. PST |
…it in 1900s.. Funny!… link
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| saltflats1929 | 06 Nov 2018 5:58 p.m. PST |
If they hadn't wasted their time on 2 world wars I could have had all that cool stuff. |
| Pictors Studio | 06 Nov 2018 7:25 p.m. PST |
We pretty much do have all that cool stuff. |
| Col Durnford | 06 Nov 2018 9:05 p.m. PST |
And the world wars were the reason for the advancement. |
robert piepenbrink  | 07 Nov 2018 7:02 a.m. PST |
I only count three complete misses--the weather machine, the ships on rails and the moving pavements. That goes down to two if we count air conditioning and central heating as the "nice weather machine." The moving pavements are perfectly feasible, but why would you want them? VCarter, hard to prove a counterfactual, but I've never believed that "war fosters technological advance" any more than I believe that "war is good for the economy." Take a good look at 1815-1914. If you stop killing people and blowing things up and focus on free trade, property rights, education and science you can make spectacular technological progress without machine-gunning anyone. |
| Vigilant | 07 Nov 2018 7:58 a.m. PST |
Moving pavements are in many airports. World wars may have accelerated the advancements, but probably didn't really create them. |
| Tango01 | 07 Nov 2018 11:41 a.m. PST |
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| robert piepenbrink | 07 Nov 2018 3:49 p.m. PST |
Good point, Vigilant. Now, if they can just put the coffee shop on the pavement, so I can sit down and reach my terminal… |
| Hector Blackwolf | 08 Nov 2018 11:30 a.m. PST |
Looking at the massive improvements in the global standard on living from 1991 to present I think it is fairly clear that not being a daggers drawn with each other is, on the whole, a net positive for humanity. On the whole, I think the world would be a much happier place had we skipped both world wars. |
| von Schwartz | 11 Nov 2018 7:46 p.m. PST |
Umm, does anyone remember a little novel by George Orwell titled 1984? Now, look around you, but don't let the thought police get you, All Hail Big Brother. |
| arthur1815 | 12 Nov 2018 2:47 a.m. PST |
Surely wars tend to stimulate developments in military technology, some of which – such as the large aeroplane flying long distances to drop bombs, morphing into the airliner – may have civilian applications. And some medical advances, such as skin grafts and plastic surgery, were inspired by the need to deal with terrible injuries inflicted by modern weapons. Which is not, of course, to suggest that war has any merit because of such developments… |
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