I get a certain degree of utopian optimism. But "oh man, if only the USSR were still around we'd have light speed human transit by the mid-90s" is a step removed from insisting we should have Time Travel by now.
I'm not saying it was realistic or that it would have happened if the USSR were still around. I'm saying what the perspective of an average person uninvolved in any of the processes would have been. Of course they would have been overly optimistic.
The message is that a time capsule from 1967 was dug up and was overly optimistic about the future. It sounds like it had roughly standard optimism for the future. I'm reading the article now and I can't seem to find who wrote the message, it's just described as being written by "communists." They were aiming a little high, but I don't know fam, from the perspective of a person living in 1967 the world had already gone through rapid technological development that seemed like it had no end. Ask any average person now what 2071 will look like and you'll either be told we'll all be dead or it'll be a technological wonderland full of cybernetics and teleporters or whatever.
“oh man, if only the USSR were still around we’d have light speed human transit by the mid-90s”
What are you talking about dude, no one said that. They said that from the perspective of a 50 year old Russian person in 1971 that might seem possible.
No you can't, because speed of R&D isn't the same thing as speed of travel.
You're just doing this shit
I get a certain degree of utopian optimism. But "oh man, if only the USSR were still around we'd have light speed human transit by the mid-90s" is a step removed from insisting we should have Time Travel by now.
I'm not saying it was realistic or that it would have happened if the USSR were still around. I'm saying what the perspective of an average person uninvolved in any of the processes would have been. Of course they would have been overly optimistic.
That is not the message the OP conveys.
The message is that a time capsule from 1967 was dug up and was overly optimistic about the future. It sounds like it had roughly standard optimism for the future. I'm reading the article now and I can't seem to find who wrote the message, it's just described as being written by "communists." They were aiming a little high, but I don't know fam, from the perspective of a person living in 1967 the world had already gone through rapid technological development that seemed like it had no end. Ask any average person now what 2071 will look like and you'll either be told we'll all be dead or it'll be a technological wonderland full of cybernetics and teleporters or whatever.
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Going to shout "XKCD is good" through the locker vents.
Don't make me shove your locker into another, slightly larger, locker.
It's just lockers all the way down.
Now there are 15 competing lockers.
What are you talking about dude, no one said that. They said that from the perspective of a 50 year old Russian person in 1971 that might seem possible.