What was the last truly innovative thing you witnessed?
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I also disagree
Your reply in of itself is a fallacy
An airplane relying upon improvements engine and material design does not negate the very real revelation of human flight to the world
Nor does your oversimplified and ultimately incorrect explanation steam engines and evolution of horse drawn vehicles
Especially considering the first automobiles were steam powered
It completely misses the point
The horseless carriage itself was the innovation
I apologize for not explaining the question more thoroughly
I am talking about innovation in a fully realized concept
I always thought that flying cars would be the next major leap in innovation, but it's still in its fledgling stages
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Katamari Damacy
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I don't see very many humans naturally flapping their arms flying around very often
There was that one guy, but I'd say it was more falling with style than flying
... and he didn't stick the landing
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I am also thankful that my children were born in this era as well
There has been significant progress in the treatment of cystic fibrosis
Still not the kind of innovation I am talking about
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Bone conducting headphones
Peltier personal AC neck coolers. (eg Coolify2)
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The internet has totally changed how humanity works, learns, socialises, and plays. I cannot think of a more dramatic social upheaval, aside from possibly the industrial revolution, or the taming of the horse.
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I was pretty impressed with the Samsung Gear VR (and Google Cardboard before it) when it was first released back in 2015. Instead of having to spend a lot on a fancy computer system and headset to experience VR, you could just stick your phone close to your eyes. Of course, it wasn't as good as an actual VR headset, but it was the first VR experience that was easily approachable for 'regular' people, and was a lot better than I thought it'd be.
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Gene Editting with CRISPR and other techniques. Eventually this will be truly personalized medicine at an affordable fee.
Fusion with more power output than input will become a game changer. Currently we have done fusion but the energy to do the demonstration was in total more than the output
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The Internet has changed almost every aspect of daily life, I don't see why you don't think it is as innovative as the invention of the car.
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Life is vastly different than in the 80s. You can literally know anything you want right now, simply by asking an artificially intelligent handheld computer that has access to every discovery known to man. We're on the cusp of being able to cure almost any disease and live forever. We can blow the planet up 10x over and still have ammo left. Scientists can see so far away that they can almost see the beginning of time. Nothing your great grandfather saw in his life will compare to what you will see in yours, have already seen.
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I'm a software guy, so I'm gonna go with 'free compilers.' Back when every company was keeping their secret sauce close to their chest, RMS turned around and released gcc fro free. That was... new, to say the least. It paved the way for much of the software you see eating the world today.
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Montana is banning those. Expect a nationwide ban to come soon.
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I understand your question wanting to know about New big shit. But if you say all inventions in medince in thre past decades is "just" a little improvenenrt of existing medicine but not Innovation, then your examples oft cars and airplanes are no invention but just a littleimprovemenrt of mobility. Bikes and trains existed before wie Bad nobility it just got faster.
Ill think the Problem why medicine and science Innovation in General is not perceived as thatdramatifc is because you need to be a scientist (vor really read yourself Into it) to understand. The incredible steps forward wie make are so complex it cannot be explained to the General public anymore.
You See the big obvious stuff (Gravitation, electricity) wie know now. You cannot write a PhD thesis anymore discovering electricity or evolution. Nowadays PhD thesis are about inventing nanoparticless in a way they only go to a very specific tissue type (cancerous) to destroy it there locally. Anymore Detail Into this requirees extensive research. But its still super innovative.
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Couldn't agree more. I put a 128GB card into my action camera last night, then remembered that my first computer had a 170MB hard drive. That's close to a thousand times more storage, and according to t'internet, it's physically more than two thousand times smaller
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I agree. I suspect the internet will retrospectively eventually even be looked at as an "information revolution" on par with the industrial one. I know that sounds like an enormous claim but there is a long road yet, so I don't think it will turn out to sound so crazy. Each revolution (and its increase in power) comes along with responsibilities and potential dark sides, though. I think similarly to how the industrial revolution opened the door to industrial war, we are already seeing the pain brought by various (distributed, automated) information war techniques. I love how we live in an age now where a person with internet access and enough tenacity can eventually learn almost anything, and contribute back, but at the same time I worry deeply about the rolling waves of belligerence, disinformation & selective amnesia coercion, gatekeeping, and fraud that have come with it. I hope humanity can get those under some degree of control soon.
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The internet had niche use for enthusiast nerds. An internet connected handheld device was the game changer.
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As unpopular as this may be, LLMs (aka. "AI" like ChatGPT).
I don't think we've seen something that'll change the world as much as I think it will since the Internet was introduced. It will change the way we interact with computers. For a lot of people, it already has.
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It doesn't seem like you're understanding what I'm saying much at all.
By your definition everything is innovative
Maybe that in of itself is the problem here, equating the words innovative and invention.
Try replacing innovative with groundbreaking or original perhaps
But saying that advent of aviation and automobiles is just bikes and trains with wings or more wheels kinda goes to prove a lack of arguing in good faith here
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