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Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Smartphones are also getting bigger

[–] pixxelkick 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you implying they didn't have minivans in the 80s, lol?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

And the Chevrolet Suburban has been around since 1935.

Granted, it has gained over a ton in that timespan. But it hasn't really gained much since 1973.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I vaguely remember some quote from the 1990s along the lines of "if cars had had the same technological growth rate as computers, by now, they'd go bazillion kilometers with a drop of gasoline, had engines the size of sugar cubes, and would cost a penny and a half."

[–] deathbysnusnu 2 points 5 months ago

Now do people.

[–] itsnotits 1 points 5 months ago

25-year* difference
40-year* difference

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