Casaubon: Putting mind boggling numbers on it: there were only 66 years between Kitty Hawk and landing on the moon - and the world had spent the century before that almost visibly winding up to that absurd rate of change and development.

Why *did* we think tech advancement was going to be quick in the early 80s?

Most of the guys who created Blade Runner were born in the 1930s, rapid & obvious tech advancement was all they'd ever known

Putting mind boggling numbers on it: there were only 66 years between Kitty Hawk and landing on the moon - and the world had spent the century before that almost visibly winding up to that absurd rate of change and development.

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