#technological development

[tomorrowusa]

Most people don't fully comprehend the speed at which Ukrainian technology has been developing.

Berlin-based tech channel TechAltar describes the astonishing rate at which Ukraine has been technologically adapting to the threat posed by Russia. As a result of its quick pace, Ukraine has been gaining the upper hand against a flailing Putin.

Ukraine operates what the blogger refers to as "an Amazon for drones" called Brave1. Frontline troops can use it to order weapons to suit their specific local needs from a constantly updated array of options.

Ukrainian military technology has become highly respected and sought after. It's now being exported to Persian Gulf countries to help defend against Iranian attacks.

Ukrainian technology has played such a successful role in the war that the 35-year-old Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, was made Minister of Defense in January.

The speed of tech development in Ukraine says a lot about its adaptability. Similar to (but likely faster than) South Korea after the Korean War, Ukraine is on track to become a major technological and economic power in the years to come.

[ahb-writes]

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions (Technology)

Technology Worldbuilding Questions:

What is the level of technological development in the world? Is it roughly as developed as ours, or closer to a past feudal system or a futuristic system where tech such as AI, robotics, communication, transportation and healthcare are more advanced?

What is the impact of each technological development on others (for example, how have advances in AI affected communication or transportation)?

Who developed or discovered a specific technology important in your world, and what impact did its invention or discovery have?

Who benefits the most from technology in this world, or is access and benefit equal? Why is that (for either answer)?

Where is key technology produced or developed? What advantages and disadvantages might this give the producer?

Where is the greatest technological innovation happening in the world, and what are its benefits and risks to society?

When did certain technologies become obsolete (or will they), and who will that affect?

When technology breaks, glitches, or behaves unexpectedly, what are the possible consequences? What margin is there for error?

Why is a technology important to a specific group of people in your world – what benefits or advantages does it confer?

Why is specific technology restricted or prohibited, and by whom? (For example, many kids are forbidden cell phone access due to low access control for adult content in our world).

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[lilbluntworld]

I. THE RATE OF LOSS OF POTENTIAL LIVES

As I write these words, suns are illuminating and heating empty rooms, unused energy is being flushed down black holes, and our great common endowment of negentropy is being irreversibly degraded into entropy on a cosmic scale. These are resources that an advanced civilization could have used to create value-structures, such as sentient beings living worthwhile lives.

Given these estimates, it follows that the potential for approximately 10^38 human lives is lost every century that colonization of our local supercluster is delayed; or equivalently, about 10^29 potential human lives per second.

“Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development” Nick Bostrom 2003

[felisglacialis-stuff]

“like it or not, it’s here to stay”

I hear that a lot regarding the AI images. What attitude is this??

Do you say the same about the biodiversity crisis and climate change? Or war? Or any other crises?

Should you just let shit happen because “like it or not, it’s going to stay?”

Hell no. Neither do we have to accept AIs taking over everything, rendering people’s lives even shallower and soulless than they already are due to work- and stimulus-overload.

Watch this and think about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&list=LL&index=5&t=1s

Also think about “The fact that you can, doesn’t mean that you should”. In science and tech development, this line is rarely even considered (I can at least speak for scientists, as I’m one myself), let alone thought about. And even if people do think about it, then there are always those who don’t. And these will eventually prevail and whatever dangerous development they wanted, will happen nevertheless. Especially if greedy companies get hold of whatever development.

AI is presented as the inevitable next step of the human “development” step. This obsession with technological development is NOT a survival need. Then people draw the parallel with evolution. You know what evolution parallel this advancement obsession really is? The evolution of cancer. Yes, cancer cells develop from healthy cells through an evolutionary process. What does it lead to? Death. Death to the organism that the cancer develops in and death to the cancer cells themselves because they have destroyed the living organims they inhabited.

That is what humanity is doing right now with this insane obsession with “technological advancement, advancement and more advancement” which is likely leading to more human overpopulation and ever more consumption at the stark cost of life quality for everyone involved, both human and non-human.

AI in the wrong hands (where it already ended) may accelerate this consumption further thereby accelerating the descent into the dystopian matrix abyss.  Can people not be satisfied with what they HAVE? Does it have to be ever more? Or are people in such an an unhappy state of life that they believe that only more technology can fix it? Are people so desperate that they are solely convinced that this AI shit and all other kinds of advancement will make everybody happier in the end? No it will not. It will accelerate further unhappiness, leading to more burnout and depression amongst those who cannot work like a robot in a digital prison with a 24/7 flood of yet shallow stimuli while seeing their last bit of creativity now replaced by machines. Or does this more-tech-obsessed society select for only a type of people that actually CAN live like robots in a world devoid of life, biodiversity, nature and genuine creativity while those people who can’t will perish and die of stress?

When people just say “like it or not” it’s like they have surrendered to this dystopian course already. You don’t HAVE to just accept this as the inevitable. FIGHT it. For fuck’s sake, don’t use it this tech crap and the AI. Reject it. Voice your opinion. You don’t need to go with the grey masses. You don’t need to join the consumption madness. You don’t need to accept AIs taking over art, replacing artists and later every aspect of life and robbing you of all your privacy.

You don’t need more and more technology to be happy. Find happiness in small things, in LIFE in creativity, in friendship and in the living world around you.

[francescolelli]

On Understanding the Dynamics that Drive a Company: Value Chain and System Dynamics

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[noosphe-re]

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

E.F. Schumacher

[indizombie]

The more our world is connected, the more a local disaster can trigger global fear and eventually a catastrophe. In the spring of 2010, a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland brought to a standstill air traffic over most of Europe – a reminder of how, regardless of all its ability to transform nature, humankind remains just another living species on the planet Earth. The catastrophic socio-economic impact of such a minor event is due to our technological development (air travel). A century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature and at the same time, at a different level, more dependent on nature’s whims.

Slavoj Zizek, 'Clear racist element to hysteria over new coronavirus', RT