Speak for yourself. I feel like I have riches of new tech at my disposal.
Currently have 10 gbs fiber internet for $45/month, in one second I can download the contents of my first hard drive. My laptop has 64gb of ram and 8tb of ssd. I don't even know what to do with that much compute as I mostly use Emacs and Firefox for everything. Meetings are completely online, so I no longer need to travel to visit other offices to exchange data.
My phone is an embarrassment of riches, it covers most of my digital needs (music, hd video, note taking, internet, email, etc.) but is mostly ignored because it's really just a distraction.
In the garage, a tig welder, cnc mill, vacuum casting table, burn out kiln and countless other tools. Due to the previously mentioned internet connection I can watch videos that teach me how to use all of this equipment. Most of the software to run the CNC mill, do CAD design or CAM is all open source and free.
I can also purchase solar panels, heat pumps, lithium iron phosphate battery banks for ridiculously low costs compared to what I would have had to spend back in the 90s when I first wanted to get off the grid.
All in all, it's all there for us to live the solar punk lifestyle we've all wanted...just takes doing it.
Memetics is much more potent than genetics. We're about to achieve much more than people could 2000 years ago, not because humans have genetically evolved to be that much smarter, but because we have memetically evolved much more sophisticated social structures. Genetics is still important, and augmenting individual intelligence should still be pursued, but memetics is in the driver seat now.
New forms of government, larger and more complicated corporations, public schooling, labor unions, global shipping routes, universities, remote work, wikipedia, internet forums, open-source software development, stock markets, etc etc.
None of these required a genetic change in the individuals involved, just a "memetic" change in the way the individuals acted, communicated, and thought.
horizontal transfer via memetics is not guaranteed to be a productive or stabilizing force in the long term, it could be convincingly argued many of our nastiest problems today derive from immaturity in handling novel forms of information flow and hybrid agency enabled by modern social and physical technology
the task, imo, is to remove memetic agency from the driver's seat and put ourselves back in it, or if we want a chauffeur at least to make sure it's taking us into a viable future
https://www.starry.com/ shows plans with 200Mbps down for 50 USD per month. I don't see anything about 10Gbps. Maybe this person lives in Switzerland? I have seen some crazy stuff there for about 50 USD.
Currently have 10 gbs fiber internet for $45/month, in one second I can download the contents of my first hard drive. My laptop has 64gb of ram and 8tb of ssd. I don't even know what to do with that much compute as I mostly use Emacs and Firefox for everything. Meetings are completely online, so I no longer need to travel to visit other offices to exchange data.
My phone is an embarrassment of riches, it covers most of my digital needs (music, hd video, note taking, internet, email, etc.) but is mostly ignored because it's really just a distraction.
In the garage, a tig welder, cnc mill, vacuum casting table, burn out kiln and countless other tools. Due to the previously mentioned internet connection I can watch videos that teach me how to use all of this equipment. Most of the software to run the CNC mill, do CAD design or CAM is all open source and free.
I can also purchase solar panels, heat pumps, lithium iron phosphate battery banks for ridiculously low costs compared to what I would have had to spend back in the 90s when I first wanted to get off the grid.
All in all, it's all there for us to live the solar punk lifestyle we've all wanted...just takes doing it.