Back in 1950s nuclear tech was seen as inevitable. Many people had even bought plates made from uranium glass. They still glow somewhere in my parents' cabinet or maybe I broke them

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umeshunni 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The comparison is apt because nuclear would have been inevitable if it wasn't for doomerism and public opinion turning against it after 3 mile Island / Chernobyl

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moffkalast 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well there are like 500 nuclear powerplants online today supplying 10% of the world's power, so it wasn't too far off. Granted it's not the Mr. Fusion in every car as they imagined it back then. We probably also won't have ASI taking over the world like some kind of vengeful comic book villain as people imagine it today.

	▲	eddythompson80 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh boy. People were expecting nuclear toothbrushes, nuclear school backpacks, nuclear stoves and nuclear fridges, nuclear grills, nuclear plates, nuclear medicine, nuclear sunglasses and nuclear airplanes. Saying well, we got 500 nuclear power plants is like saying “well, we got excellent `npx create-app` style templates from AI. That’s pretty huge impact. I don’t know a single project post 2030 that didn’t start as an AI scaffolded project. That’s pretty huge dude”