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There's days that I wish that people like Ray Kurzweil are correct about the Singularity. When that day comes, what we cherish the most will no longer be lost unwillingly.

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I frequently wish that I was born a few hundred years later than I was. Then I remind myself that I'm lucky I wasn't born a few hundred years earlier. Which isn't quite enough to balance out my disappointment at being in this time.

At any point in time, there were always skilled technical people pushing the edge of their trade. I had the privilege of visiting a Viking museum in Oslo, where I had an epiphany.

Did you know that 1000 years ago, viking smiths were smelting iron from bog peat, and making swords from it?

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/...

And then you have their outrageously sophisticated and evolved ships. I'd like to think that if I lived back there, I would have gotten involved with something like that.

You're only disappointed because you're looking at the future from a perspective of the present. People from the future won't understand why you think you're missing what they have.

If you're disappointed by the generation in which you live, you're doing it wrong. When you talk on a cell phone? That shit is being sent to outer space! Incomprehensible!

I realise you're only regurgitating what you saw on a Youtube clip linked to by reddit, but you do realise that standard mobile ('cell') phone conversations don't use satellites don't you?

Anyway, RIP Fravia

Yes, and the clip was hilarious despite being inaccurate, though the inaccuracy doesn't change the point.

And since I don't visit reddit, I must have found it here ;)

At which point we will cease to cherish it.

Fine. That which is important shouldn't be fragile enough to need cherishing.

You don't cherish things like clean water and computers?

Of course I do, but only because I've experienced life without them and understand that they are not ubiquitous. If there were an infinite supply of clean water and computers I wouldn't really need to cherish them, would I?

Without death, life ceases to have meaning; it ceases to be cherished. You cannot have one without the other as they imply each other.

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