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What would you do with a second chance? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 weeks ago

That gets me wondering... If we'd managed to avert/thwart 9-11, would the tech from the disclosure project's press club a mere 4 months prior, have managed to get out, and by now in 2026, we'd have long been living in a jetsons/startrek high-tech more-utopian world?

Think of the unnecessary "resource wars" of the past quarter a century that could have been completely averted, with the successful campaign to de-secret all the various emancipatory technologies hidden in the past century of banker-led wars. Think of the near total absence of pollution from our technology. Even the electrics, honed to cymatic cromulence. ... */Dreamer*