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I wonder if this is how people born in the early 20th century felt about going from first flight to moon landing in a few decades. It took some serious conflict
by ulnarkressty 5y ago
I wonder if this is how people born in the early 20th century felt about going from first flight to moon landing in a few decades. It took some serious conflicts for things to evolve to that point though. I'm not looking forward to the AI wars.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y ago>going from first flight to moon landing in a few decades And then nothing.
- boplicity 5y agoActually, space technology, via literal objects in space, impacts almost everyone's life (especially in wealthy countries), pretty much constantly. It's simply become so woven into our day-to-day lives that we don't even think about it.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoProgress is hard to quantify. We developed language, what, hundreds of thousands of years ago? And then very little seemed to happen, but it was a slow-burning fire that eventually exploded. Our use of computers seems almost sure to be similar. But that said, there are certainly structural factors inhibiting innovation. Scale problems make it nearly impossible to challenge someone like Google or Facebook (although TikTok did manage the latter). Were there more competition, one imagines there would be more innovation. Patents are likely a net drag. Laws, esp. tax laws, could be simpler. I'm sure I'm omitting other important factors.
- deltaonefour 5y agoYes. You omitted physical limits. It is very likely that Humanity will not achieve much of technology implied by science fiction. The only exception looks to be AI, because although we haven't created an AI that matches human intelligence... the existence of human intelligence itself implies that building an AI to the level of human intelligence is possible.
- MisterBastahrd 5y agoI'll try to remember that the next time I listen to Sirius while using GPS to navigate.