I'd say we're in many ways less future-obsessed than we used to be, at least when it comes to the distant future.
I'd say we're in many ways less future-obsessed than we used to be, at least when it comes to the distant future. You can see numerous examples ranging from magazines dating back to the 1800's (and before) of all the wacky inventions they pictured denizens of the year 2000 using (rocket packs! nuclear-powered cars! pneumatic transport!), and what life might be like (through the lens of the time). Readerships enjoyed and appreciated reading about the future and giving their imaginations fertile ground to romp. Futurist was actually a job title. I think now we're too busy or easily distracted to care much about the possibilities of the distant future. Most of our thoughts on the subject are now doom scenarios involving climate change, collision with an asteroid, running -out- of atmospheric CO2, or the Sun eventually encompassing the Earth. Then again, maybe there's just a big opening for someone with the right marketing skills to fill an unmet need. I think I could be a futurist.
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I think this release is really going to give them a hard time selling Fable: > On our benchmarks, Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic codin...
My biggest problem with this is that this regulation is only aimed at AI.
Because it works too reliably.
OCaml's type system is quite janky and simplistic compared to Haskell's.
This is a very annoying problem, it's infuriating, you pay 10 USD<->20 USD/mo, and the ads are not even removed.
These are markets that are being developed actively by car companies.
> We can see that because people who put their money where their mouths are, like venture capitalists, encourage those behaviors.
So what is the unmet need behind an obsession with sexless/child-like figures?
I'd say we're in many ways less future-obsessed than we used to be, at least when it comes to the distant future.
I'd say we're in many ways less future-obsessed than we used to be, at least when it comes to the distant future. You can see numerous examples ranging from magazines dating back to the 1800's (and before) of all the wacky inventions they pictured denizens of the year 2000 using (rocket packs! nuclear-powered cars! pneumatic transport!), and what life might be like (through the lens of the time). Readerships enjoyed and appreciated reading about the future and giving their imaginations fertile ground to romp. Futurist was actually a job title. I think now we're too busy or easily distracted to care much about the possibilities of the distant future. Most of our thoughts on the subject are now doom scenarios involving climate change, collision with an asteroid, running -out- of atmospheric CO2, or the Sun eventually encompassing the Earth. Then again, maybe there's just a big opening for someone with the right marketing skills to fill an unmet need. I think I could be a futurist.
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