Progress Studies

In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons. @yishan set them straight.

"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider

My current favorite theory about what's gone wrong since the 1970s is that we stopped innovating to maximize performance and started optimizing for energy (and resource) efficiency. Imagine all the cool shit we're gonna build once we have abundant sources of clean energy...