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On a more optimistic note, we're flying an autonomous helicopter on Mars. I wouldn't look at (even successful) consumer apps as a metric of our engineering and
by exdsq 6y ago
On a more optimistic note, we're flying an autonomous helicopter on Mars. I wouldn't look at (even successful) consumer apps as a metric of our engineering and computing abilities!
- ta988 6y agoNo, you're absolutely right, but the fact that many of our best brains are used to just sell more ads to sell more things to sell more ads is concerning... Same with the best brains being used to "disrupt" things without taking humans into account.
- goatlover 6y agoWe are, but the Fermi Paradox gives some pause to the notion that technological progress continues toward a post-singularity society that would make teanshumanism a reality. If it did, we’d be part of an alien civilization, since the galaxy would have been transformed long before we evolved.
- morpheos137 6y agoThere is zero evidence that a technological singularity is possible. In fact the technological gains to learning basic physics seems to have slowed over the last half century or so.