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bemmu t1_j6cw333 wrote

Agreed there were more consumer-facing things affecting our lives in your earlier timespan.

I'd include these at least in your timespan:

  • 2016 SpaceX succeeds landing a rocket booster back, making access to space more affordable.
  • 2017 Transformer-based deep learning models, making possible GPT-3, ChatGPT, also used in Stable Diffusion.
  • 2019 Oculus Quest makes VR a lot more mainstream.
  • ~2020 AlphaFold, can now predict how proteins fold. A problem which seemed intractable before and will likely lead to many medical breakthroughs.

Also during the last few years electric cars have become much more popular.

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