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Cake day: September 9th, 2023

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  • We are in a time where a single invention can rarelt be great. For technological development you need thousands of small inventions, each that use previous technological breakthrough through decades of research. And even great things we have, are just refinement and miniaturization of things we already had.

    But if a single thing had to be said, I would say mRNA vaccines. Covid vaccines saved milions of lives, were developed in record times, and their technology could be used for HIV or even antitumoral vaccines.



  • That usually means they got to a high level of refinement they don’t need to upgrade, because there’s some kind of incredibly difficult obstacle to overcome (like today’s lithium batteries that have not developed much in the last decade), or it’s such a good design that they developed the base for the next decades of humanoid robots models (just think of a pen that has been the same for a century, because it’s as good as it gets)