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Pop quiz - what do you think people will be laughing this hard about from our time in 150 years?
by jonplackett 7y ago
Pop quiz - what do you think people will be laughing this hard about from our time in 150 years?
- JackFr 7y agoA decent amount of our stuff. It’s important to read stuff like this to encourage a little humility. These guys were no less smart than we are. When you read stuff like this from an earlier era it’s always shocking just how different their frame of reference is, what’s considered important and what’s assumed common knowledge. The book “But What if We’re Wrong?” By Chuck Klosterman really does a great job looking at this question.
- jonplackett 7y agoI'll check that out. I read somewhere that there's a bias where we all believe we are living somehow at the end of history, and that surly this time we have everything right. Backing up your point about smartness not being the problem, there's a quote, I think from Lord Kelvin of 'the kelvin' fame, saying something like all science has basically been discovered and we just need to fill in the details. We just can't help believing we are at a somehow special point in history.
- cataphract 7y agoProbably much of our understanding of biology. It seems to be in a much more incipient stage.