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Not literally a singularity, just incomprehensible from the past. Arguably all points on a technological exponential have this property.
by hyperthesis 3y ago
Not literally a singularity, just incomprehensible from the past. Arguably all points on a technological exponential have this property.
- creer 3y agoYes! Someone elsewhere mentions the engineers of the first printing press trying to imagine the future of literature (someone adds: and/or advertising). On the other side of that invention taking off. My go-to example is that we have run into similar things with the pace and volume of "Science". For a long while one could be a scientific gentleman and keep up with the sciences. As a whole. Then quite suddenly, on the other side, you couldn't and you had to settle for one field. And then it happened again: people noticed that you can't master one field even, on the current side. And you have to become a hyper-specialist to master your niche. You can still be a generalist - in order to attack specific questions - but you better have contacts who are hyper-specialists for what you really need.
- kristiandupont 3y agoI feel like I experienced this up close in IT. When I was a kid in the 90's, I was the "computer guy" on the street and people would ask me whenever anything was wrong with their computer. If any piece of software or hardware wasn't working, there was a good chance I could help and I loved it. Today, I am trying (but struggling!) to keep up with the evolving libraries and frameworks for frontend development in Typescript!