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Back to the Future II (set in 2015) was wildly divergent from the 1985 present in the film, with flying cars and other advanced technology, but the actual 2015 was very similar to 1985—cars were slightly different, phones didn't exist, but the built environment looked nearly the same.
The critique of Silicon Valley populism is that populists don't actually care about science or want to fund it; they want to 'kill funding to Harvard just because they don't like Harvard,' preventing the necessary large-scale investments in scientific breakthroughs that Silicon Valley needed from government.
The common-sense understanding that the world in 1985 looks fairly similar to 2025 (unlike the vast differences between 1860/1890 and 1970) provides non-statistical but compelling evidence for the stagnation thesis, as even children can observe the built environment has not dramatically transformed in 40 years the way it did in prior 80-year periods.
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