Non-infectious diseases like diabetes or hypertension. I'm not sure most people would consider broken bones to be a disease, besides, I've known people with broken bones who've recovered with no medical intervention. Most bacterial infections are cured by the body's natural immune system, antibiotics just help it out.
I know people with auto pilots on boats and when engaged, they'll go downstairs and only pop their heads out of the cabin ever ten minutes or so. But otherwise they're watching movies or cooking or eating or using the toilet. Sometimes they'll even go to sleep if they're alone.
This has been known for decades which is why it's heavily regulated in industries where it's relevant. I remember saying this 5 years ago and was modded as a troll.
I saw a qnx demo of a bouncing cube and realtime video playing on the different sides of the cube - and it was running on low end hardware (by today's standards) and kb and mouse inputs with zero lag, no matter how heavily loaded (my favorite feature of well done realtime systems). I got a personal tour of their offices in the 90's. I'm pretty sure it could handle a cell phone without problem.
The history of civilizations appear to follow the same life arc regardless of individuals or technology. I think that was one of the key elements of the book.
And it fit on a 1.2MB floppy disk - with GUI. I forgot about QNX. It was a lot of fun to play with. Real time systems got it right (as opposed to pre-emptive).
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Population of Los Angeles metro: 13million, almost 26x Wyoming. Larger than the bottom 13 states combined.
Non-infectious diseases like diabetes or hypertension. I'm not sure most people would consider broken bones to be a disease, besides, I've known people with broken bones who've recovered with no medical intervention. Most bacterial infections are cured by the body's natural immune system, antibiotics just help it out.
depends on what you mean by cure
Taking a pill (pharmaceutical) and have the disease go away forever. And you are talking abut infectious diseases.
How much did they lose with unsuccessful treatments?
The closest that I've found claims "The only disease ever 'cured' is Small Pox.". And it's infectious.
Why is this scary? Would a machine that could add one thousand numbers in one second be scary to someone in 1965?
Dust with flour before playing.
and a generation of shitty educated people we'd have in the long term
As opposed to how it is now?
I took a trip to SLAC last year and didn't get through SF until after 9PM and could not find an open restaurant anywhere.
Just like slashdot, or reddit or the rest of the internet.
If it does it's for the worse, seems it's just a modern curse
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-- Blaise Pascal
It is. Out of the 10e+81g of matter in the universe, maybe 10e14 has ever been alive. That should be very special.
Not even close. By about a factor of 10.
I know people with auto pilots on boats and when engaged, they'll go downstairs and only pop their heads out of the cabin ever ten minutes or so. But otherwise they're watching movies or cooking or eating or using the toilet. Sometimes they'll even go to sleep if they're alone.
See Human Factors Engineering
I saw a qnx demo of a bouncing cube and realtime video playing on the different sides of the cube - and it was running on low end hardware (by today's standards) and kb and mouse inputs with zero lag, no matter how heavily loaded (my favorite feature of well done realtime systems). I got a personal tour of their offices in the 90's. I'm pretty sure it could handle a cell phone without problem.
The history of civilizations appear to follow the same life arc regardless of individuals or technology. I think that was one of the key elements of the book.
Science fiction is not really about the characters, but about how they and culture are affected by technology.
Good sci-fi does not rely on special effects. That's for soap operas in space
Everyone used to smoke that much. Even in classrooms.
The history of civilizations all seem to follow the same arc of birth, growth, stagnation and collapse regardless of the reasons.
If 95% of the people "have a problem", can you really be considered normal?
And it fit on a 1.2MB floppy disk - with GUI. I forgot about QNX. It was a lot of fun to play with. Real time systems got it right (as opposed to pre-emptive).
Maybe why the internet took such a nose dive when smartphones came out