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My Steam Deck.
Also, I love my smart watch. It makes things easier and helps keep up on my health.
Then compared to a decade ago, android phones and the OS have gotten a ton better.
Also, solar has gotten a lot cheaper and many electric companies have started storing electricity in large zinc batteries to reduce pollution and prevent brown outs.
EV cars suck less, but they still aren't quite ready to replace gas completely. I think that will happen over the next decade.
Really, just the internet sucks more now.
Are these really breakthroughs, though? Incremental improvements are cool but your list is
-portable computer
-smaller wrist computer
-hand computer is faster
-more solar panels exist
-cars with different power source are better
When i think of breakthrough i think of going from paper punch cards to computer based file systems not computer based file system to faster one.
I also really like my steam deck fwiw
It didn't go from paper files to computers in a single breakthrough. It went from handwritten documents to typewriters to better typewriters to gaint discs to magnetic tape to optical storage to hdds to SSDs. That wasn't one breakthrough, but a handful.
Breakthroughs are usually pretty slow, man. Like, the only thing that happened the decade before that was smartphone. Nothing really the decade before that one. Then "the internet" the decade before that.