“The future has a reputation for accomplishing feats which the past thought impossible”
Optional extra:
“Future civilizations have even broken what past civilizations thought (incorrectly, of course) to be the laws of physics. If prophets of 1900 AD — never mind 1000 AD — had tried to bound the powers of human civilization a billion years later, some of those impossibilities would have been accomplished before the century was out; transmuting lead into gold, for example”
“The future has a reputation for accomplishing feats which the past thought impossible”
Optional extra:
“Future civilizations have even broken what past civilizations thought (incorrectly, of course) to be the laws of physics. If prophets of 1900 AD — never mind 1000 AD — had tried to bound the powers of human civilization a billion years later, some of those impossibilities would have been accomplished before the century was out; transmuting lead into gold, for example”
EY, AI as a pos neg factor, 2006ish