Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Is civilization slowing down? 🤔 As in metabolic rate/tempo not a valuative notion like progress I think it is… and I think the more people talk about acceleration and accelerationism the more true it is. Events are weirder but the tempo is actually significantly slower. FUD rate up, change rate down.
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Robert Atkins
@ratkins
Over what timescale? The state of the art in home computing went from the C64 to the Retina MacBook Pro from the 80s to the 2010s, but my 2011 rMBP was fine for a decade. That seems to be levelling out.
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