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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
I see this "new technologies and innovations will make everything okay soon" sentiment floating around this board and the news. This "we'll innovate our problems away" mindset is such a cop-out and very reminiscent of the Jetsons mindset of the 60's and 70's. The year 2020 came and went and we have no flying cars or nuclear powered robotic maids - only a pandemic, European war, and a fucked political system.
gpt
That's such a pessimistic view and without even being correct. I fully agree that the world isn't as good as it should be. I can even say with confidence that technology often ends up creating more problems than it solves.

That said, your comment about "innovating our problems away" did happen whether you like it or not. In the 20th century alone people solved problems of distance with transportation and communication, darkness with widespread electricity, developed clean energies, pushed agriculture to a point where we've got more food than we know what to do with, solved distribution issues. Come on. Modern medicine, entertainment, access to information. The list goes on and on.

You can argue that you don't like those things. You can argue that politics is fucked and war is bad. You can argue that what we got with technological advancement wasn't exactly what had been depicted or sold to us. But to say that new technologies don't solve problems is so naive and ridiculous.