Notices by Thomas Stockinger (thstockinger@hcommons.social)

@futurebird @benni Historian here, and I strongly agree with this. Most claims for the absolutely game-changing profundity of present advances are rooted in gross ignorance of the history of whatever field is being talked about. Sometimes it's willful ignorance, sometimes genuine, often it's motivated by desire to sell your own product. But overall, most claims that we are RIGHT NOW about to see the biggest change EVER in X fail to stand up to even the quickest serious look at the history of X.

(Climate change/ ecological collapse, sadly, seems to be the exception to this.)