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Humans were busy fighting wars, improving its advertising technology, and just generally slacking around when the internet was being born as well. It only take
by carleverett 10y ago
Humans were busy fighting wars, improving its advertising technology, and just generally slacking around when the internet was being born as well.
It only takes a very tiny portion of this world's 7 billion people to be smart and motivated enough to create a breakthrough for the entire planet.
That said, interstellar travel is an order of magnitude more difficult, so I agree it won't be happening very soon.
- the_duke 10y agoI'm surprised that the internet so often comes up in the context of humanities great technical achievements. Don't get me wrong, a seamlessly interconnected network of computers has changed society and our lives tremendously. Technically speaking, it was not that remarkable of an achievement though. We already had some forms of remote communication for quite a while (telegraph, telephone, radio). With the rise of computers, connecting them was bound to be the next step, and not that much of a challenge as far as hardware and technology goes. The actual (technical) achievement was the computer.