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Comment by criley2 | Hacker News Reader

Who has?

We're still on Facebook and Twitter and Youtube, using iPhones to play digital music. You say 2020, I say 2009.

Wireless earbuds and smart watches I guess are the only "game changing" (they're not) inventions of note for the past decade?

Web... phone... computer... they're just more refined versions of products we had in 2009.

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Well VR is a thing now for $300. And there is tiktok and snapchat as far as social media goes. Companies are slowly marching to deliver AR as a product too. Consumer drones are another thing along with cheap digital large sensor cameras, and once something like waymo and boom delivers, those would be revolutions of their own. Also solar is cheaper than coal now as an energy source, and complete DNA sequencing now costs $1000 vs $100’000. Electric cars are now something that the upper-middle class can own practically.

Am I the only that finds SM platforms like snapchat and tiktok infantile and vacuous? Say what you want about Facebook and Reddit, but in the right forums you can have thoughtful debates and discussions. I don't see TT and SC as anything but fads. TT is the same 10 or 15 takes on the same thing over and over and SC is just a 1 hit music star that somehow still lingers around.

tiktok good though. I like the community "clusters" the algorithm creates. Leads to a whole vareity of interesting content and stuff to watch explore

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