Has the future arrived?

5 points by rman666 12y ago ↗ HN

Google buys robotics companies. Drones. China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space. Exciting times :-)

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thenerdfiles 12y ago ↗

> History is pre-determined by scientific laws which are sequentially discovered by people and which, in their inexorable application, produce technology. — Bruce Bimber. "Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism" (http://web.mit.edu/sts/pubs/pdfs/MIT_STS_WorkingPaper_11_Bim...). 1990.

gesman 12y ago ↗

Bad news: it is only the present. Always.

_random_ 12y ago ↗

"China lands a rover on the moon. Iran sends monkeys into space." - previous century's achievements.

"Google buys robotics companies." - no result yet, they still have to figure out how to add ads to robotics.

No, future has not arrived.

brudgers 12y ago ↗

        "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
         -- William Faulkner

collyw 12y ago ↗

The Orwellian aspects certainly seem to be here.

imdevelopin 12y ago ↗

Future will never arrive. It is present always.