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>back in the 90s
The world changed after the 90s. All the predictions turned out to be wrong, because in the 80s and 90s, humanity was full of hope and scientific and technical progress was aimed at improving the human condition and emancipating humans from the tyranny of nature and certain other people. And intelligent people were still respected and listened to.

Everyone thought that the 2000s were going to be the Star Trek years, when everyone would live for hundreds of years because advances in medicine and information technology were going to make it possible.

In fact, we realised that on the one hand capitalism was really the greatest plague that humanity had ever created, siphoning off brains to create useless applications for facebook and apple instead of allowing these brains to contribute to scientific progress, and on the other hand promoting idiocy with the promotion of literal idiots to easily exploit others, and that humanity in its majority was still very ignorant and dumb as the covid- health crisis showed where people wanted to drink bleach or take horse pills to treat themselves.

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Why aren't genetics companies the all powerful juggernauts that Chrichton predicted they'd become back in the 90s?