The built environment provides common-sense evidence of stagnation: someone time-traveling across the 80 years from 1890 to 1970 would find a completely transformed world, whereas the world of 1985 looks fairly similar to 2025 apart from phones and minor car differences.
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“the world just to my kids, even as children of 2025, looking at 1985, it's like the cars were a little different. And no one has phones, but the world seems fairly similar.”
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A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat— Interesting Times with Ross DouthatCreated: 6/18/2026, 2:32:27 PM
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