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This is a very interesting perspective. What do you think is the next step? I am asking for an educated guess, or even interested speculation; people in the mid
by _archon_ 12y ago
This is a very interesting perspective. What do you think is the next step? I am asking for an educated guess, or even interested speculation; people in the middle of the bronze age likely didn't know that steel was the next step until after iron was extracted for the first time.
If I had to guess, I would put the next phase at "integration" or "control." In that once we have functional, reliable libraries and virtual instruments, the logical next step is to integrate the high-level control of such into our physiologies. Alternatively, I could see "space" being an age we expand into, drawing our resources increasingly from space and broadening the scope of our potential that way. I'd like to see these happen in parallel if possible.
- jp555 12y agoI'd say integration and control are N+1 optimization, not 0+1 invention. Things like new forms of quantum logic/algorithms, artificial atoms, metamaterials, even subvocal tools (moving us from graphical user interfaces towards thought-based user interfaces), are more 0+1 to me.