We are all so ignorant of how people in other professions do things today.
I was just at the dentist. He told me that Novocain was obsolete. Had been since he started dental school in 2000. He now uses 4 different types of anesthetic for different applications.
They no longer use mercury silver amalgam. They use engineered materials that cure under ultraviolet light in seconds and are almost instantly harder than enamel in seconds.
This kind of progress is being made in all (viable) industries. Is Ferguson thinking about this kind of progress in his flip analysis?
“This kind of progress is being made in all (viable) industries. Is Ferguson thinking about this kind of progress in his flip analysis?”
No he is not.
Most changes are evolutionary instead of radical. Compare cars of 30 years ago to today. They were junk. 18 MGP was considered good back in the day. No onstar or equilavent.
Technology is one of the few real improvements in the past 30 years while society is going downhill fast. If he had said that improvements in technology are not improving our lives as fast as cultural decay is causing problems, I might buy that argument.
But he said that science and technology is slowing down which is just not true.