Other eras don't apply to this one: global comm, mobile computing, the internet, gene therapy and mRNA, decentralization of electric power through solar, trans-border communities, the Fediverse; all of these were literally science fiction of the most speculative kind *when I was 10 years old*.
The technology we live with and take for granted is so extraordinary it rivals agriculture and the written word in terms of its impact on human cultural and social development.
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