Nostr

I am a long term optimist.

Humanity has been improving our condition for 12,000 years on an exponential curve, with breakthroughs and revolutions happening over and over, and there is no reason to think that trend will stop. Up ahead we may well see major breakthroughs with AI, nanotech, bioengineering, fusion power, moving into space, etc. Even as we trip up (toxic chemicals of the 50s and 60s, chernobyl disaster, obesity epidemic currently, climate change, etc) we eventually innovate our way out of these problems. I only wish I could live to see the great breakthroughs 100 years hence.

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HoloKat 1y ago

It’s always interesting to think about what the world might look like if we could fast forward and observe it unfold for 500 years.

Robertrobert 1y ago

🤝

Moss 1y ago

Absolutely. The next 100 years, due to the emergence of artificial intelligence, will be the fastest period of development in human history. It will be an exponential growth rate. For thousands of years since the birth of humanity, productivity remained almost unchanged during the era of agricultural civilization. However, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, human productivity began to develop rapidly. After the Industrial Revolution, machines surpassed the limits of human physical labor. With artificial intelligence, AI will surpass the limits of human experience and wisdom. As machines surpass human physical labor and experience-based wisdom, the next 100 years will be an extraordinary century.

captjack 🏴‍☠️✨💜 1y ago

can humans beat cockroach in survival ? forget bitcoin

they survived dinosaur didnot

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

average life expectancy (and with health) of more than 100 years are probably a near future thing too

james 1y ago

I agree but we should also be aware that human innovation can also be occur in a negative, shadow sense; we have created weapons of destruction and the tools of mass manipulation.