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all it would have ever required was one unlucky asteroid encounter.
That's a pretty minor threat, comparitevely, and something that is a constant for all life forms in every time. We have, now, added threats of extinction that are drastically more urgent in addition to that threat.
How far we have gone in just 15,000, all thanks to agriculture...
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Originally posted by Q Cubed
Personally, I think that technology is simply a form of progress, of change, and since it never ends...
I can take a walk and make progress. That doesn't mean I'm not going to reach the end of the path. Just because something progresses doesn't mean that it doesn't have an end. A lot of people assume that technological advancement will never end, but I've never seen a good argument for that. The norm is for things to end, not just keep going on forever. You and I disagree about time and space. You think they have a beginning, but I don't. We both think they don't have an ending, but we are just speculating. I just don't think there is any justification to assume that technological advancement is an infinit thing.
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Part of the reason I see technological advancement as unterminated is that in its very nature, it is an iterative, almost inertial, process that thrives in an open system.
It will continue to advance as technology and innovation feed off of itself, and unless stopped by something, will continue to do so; however, in an open system, where energy and information are continually added, there's nothing there to stop it.
Sure, human technological advancement will stop when, say, humanity is rightly exterminated by a just and loving god. Until such a point in time occurs, however, there's no reason to think progress will stop.
Originally posted by Q Cubed
It will continue to advance as technology and innovation feed off of itself, and unless stopped by something, will continue to do so; however, in an open system, where energy and information are continually added, there's nothing there to stop it.
But it doesn't always feed off of itself. It only does that sometimes, and only to a limit. If it could continually feed off of itself then it would be infinite.
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When hasn't technological progress fed off of itself, at least in part? Every new iterative development, say, with silicon chips, is designed based off of the previous generation. New ideas and new concepts may arise and come into play, but often they'll only do so because the conditions are right for such a "mutation" to occur.
Even when there is a revolutionary change, the precursors are there that create an environment to engender it.
So, I ask you, when hasn't technological progress not fed off of itself, at least in part?
Originally posted by Q Cubed
When hasn't technological progress fed off of itself, at least in part? Every new iterative development, say, with silicon chips, is designed based off of the previous generation. New ideas and new concepts may arise and come into play, but often they'll only do so because the conditions are right for such a "mutation" to occur.
Even when there is a revolutionary change, the precursors are there that create an environment to engender it.
So, I ask you, when hasn't technological progress not fed off of itself, at least in part?
right.
Even if kid is right about tech eventually reaching a kind of asymtopic 'ceiling' beyond which substantial progress is very slow or impossible, everything in our history suggests that ceiling either doesn't exist or is nowhere in forseeable sight.
Originally posted by Q Cubed
When hasn't technological progress fed off of itself, at least in part? Every new iterative development, say, with silicon chips, is designed based off of the previous generation. New ideas and new concepts may arise and come into play, but often they'll only do so because the conditions are right for such a "mutation" to occur.
Even when there is a revolutionary change, the precursors are there that create an environment to engender it.
So, I ask you, when hasn't technological progress not fed off of itself, at least in part?
So are you saying that every single techological advancement can be fed upon? .... And that advancement fed upon, and so forth to infinite?
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Originally posted by Kidicious
So are you saying that every single techological advancement can be fed upon? .... And that advancement fed upon, and so forth to infinite?
That is what history has shown us so far, hasn't it?
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