“We won’t experience one hundred years of technological advance in the twenty-first century; we will witness on the order of twenty thousand years of progress.”
— Ray Kurzweil
(2001 essay. The Law of Accelerating Returns)
Discussion
They still running that moon landing script? Cool
Can’t wait til you see the mars landing. I hope you think it’s AI
In all honesty, I do have a minor curiosity of the moon landings thing. It seems a patently absurd political stunt for sure but I had the opportunity to see slides of “moon rock” under the microscope at college and can’t fathom how one could achieve such a perfect olivine crystal structure on earth due to the oxidation potential. It really is still a quandary for me. Beautiful things to see though regardless. I wish I’d been a little more inquisitive at the time
