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You’re making it sound very simplistic but those screens are a whole new world that enable us to do an incredible number of things— from all the knowledge in the world at your fingertips, to very cheap and ubiquitous communication, shopping on demand, GPS, entertainment, learning, creativity from music to videos to graphics, simulations of real world situations etc. Our electricity is coming from renewable resources, there’s more social egalitarianism, countries across the world have gone from undeveloped world to much, much higher levels of development, air travel is significantly more accessible to everyone, we’re on the cusp of an general AI, space is more accessible, we can genetically modify our DNA and on and on.


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