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Name a single technological breakthrough in the past decade that has improved your life in some way (hexbear.net)
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I feel as if technology has stagnated, all that are left are grifts or just make everything terrible, like AI. I was thinking Zoom calls maybe? The tech has definitely improved since Skype.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Electric unicycles have been improving fast over the last decade, and all that development has been happening in China. The initial invention of the modern style seatless EUC was around 2010, but that inventor is just patent squatting at this point so there's zero US work in the category.