deepsee-er on Nostr: If one thing has been shown throughout history, humans are notorious for being caught ...
If one thing has been shown throughout history, humans are notorious for being caught by surprise by seismic changes of one sort or another. Even when the precursors are sitting right under our noses. Very few expected the Berlin Wall to fall so suddenly, yet it happened, and the signs were likely everywhere beforehand. Very few saw the explosive emergence of the world wide web in 1995, yet a mere 5 years later, it was beginning to explode in usage. And most people in 2005 would have scoffed at the prospect of carrying a small portable computer in your hands anywhere you went, yet 2 years later the iphone sprang forth. Tipping points are everywhere, yet seen nowhere by most people. I don’t think there has ever been an example of a revolutionary tech/societal advance that was ever predicted and expected by the majority. It’s just not in out dna to be good at this. And thank god too, as life would be pretty boring if we all knew exactly what was coming and when.
Am fairly certain that many of the precursor conditions for hyperbitcoinization are in place, and that the tipping points could catch the globe by surprise within the next decade.
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2023-03-01 18:23:32Event JSON
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