When, if ever, should I expect actually-useful smart glasses or other tech to give me access to arbitrarily-large high-res virtual displays without needing to take up a lot of physical space, or prevent me from sitting somewhere other than a single, fixed desk?
On both the Three Body Problem and economic history: It really is remarkably difficult to get people to see that 1) Humans are horrible, and used to be more horrible, 2) Everything is broken, and used to be much more broken, and 3) Actual humans doing actual physical things have made everything much better on net, and in the long run “on net” is usually what matters.
On screen space:
When, if ever, should I expect actually-useful smart glasses or other tech to give me access to arbitrarily-large high-res virtual displays without needing to take up a lot of physical space, or prevent me from sitting somewhere other than a single, fixed desk?
On both the Three Body Problem and economic history: It really is remarkably difficult to get people to see that 1) Humans are horrible, and used to be more horrible, 2) Everything is broken, and used to be much more broken, and 3) Actual humans doing actual physical things have made everything much better on net, and in the long run “on net” is usually what matters.