October 4 1957 Humanity's First Artificial Satellite - World Amazed!
July 20, 1969 Humanity's First Steps on the Moon - Whole World Watches!
August 25, 2012 Humanity Becomes Interstellar When Voyager 1 Enters Interstellar Space - Almost Nobody Notices.
April 20, 2021 Cerebras Defeats Another Major Tumbler Toward Unlocking the AI Hell Mouth - US Press Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of 4/20 Pot Smoking Meme!
A few observations:
- Bloody incredible technological achievement! There are many amazing stories and heroes behind this development that we'll never hear.
- The NSA has already ordered the entire first production run for an NBC hardened black site and is probably planning additional reactors to provide more power.
- Teach your children to speak binary.
There are events that literally accelerate the foundation of humanity's technological ecosystem, but at first appearance only create a tiny initial tremor which later grows to reshape our capabilities.
The future potentials of this technology milestone are presently beyond imagination. But undoubtedly they include many trivial misuses (targeting personalized advertising at more intrusive levels) and species-toxic misuses (individual level population surveillance and control).
On a more optimistic note, if we had a global fact and science based holistic model overseeing world public health, pandemics would by extinct. Hmm, maybe build one to get global warming under control?
So if you were too busy celebrating the 50th anniversary of 4/20 yesterday, some really amazing stuff happened while you were out.