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Progress doesn't work like that. Once you've picked the obvious low-hanging fruit it stops being a research problem and starts being an engineering one. Which m
by otabdeveloper4 7y ago
Progress doesn't work like that. Once you've picked the obvious low-hanging fruit it stops being a research problem and starts being an engineering one. Which means tradeoffs and no free lunch and no more magic.
We're never gonna have an airliner that is 10 times faster than the ones we have now. Same principles with computing too.
- Miraste 7y agoI don't know, using a VR headset for the first time is the most magical tech experience I've ever had and that was barely three years ago. Modern VR came about because all the disparate pieces of tech involved slowly improved over decades, until one day they all worked well enough to create something humanity could only dream of just a few years ago. There are a lot of fields in similar situations. We have room for some magic yet.