We Could've Had Flying Cars: It Doesn't Have To Be Like This In 2025
On knowledge, power, technology, and lying about being a college graduate -- and the last gasps of capitalism and a dying, greedy generation who craved unlimited power and hoarded resources.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
We’ve lived in the Information Age for nearly 80 years since the ENIAC was created in 1946 and the transistor was invented in 1947; we’ve been in the digital age for more than 50 following the introduction of the personal computer in the 1970s, with subsequent technology rapidly introduced providing the ability to transfer information freely and quickly.
The first iPhone was released in 2007, almost 25 years ago, and social media expanded almost immediately from it’s burgeoning beginnings of Tumblr and MySpace into the explosion of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and beyond, while pocket-sized dating apps like Tinder epitomized the human need for connection.
Humankind’s first livestreamed genocide in Palestine during 2023 and 2024 epitomized the human willingness to turn a blind eye.
That’s what I’m going to talk about here: the human need for connection, our thirst for knowledge and how, no matter what extremes they resort to, the Baby Boomers cannot ever put the genie …