Even without a singularity, 2050 is unimaginably far away. 2050 is as far from 2021, as 2021 is from 1992, a time when there was no mass Internet, no smartphones, no 9/11, Japan was America’s big economic rival, China was still debating whether to continue economic reform, the Soviet Union had just ceased to exist and the European Union had just begun to exist. Half the world population of 2021 wasn’t even alive in 1992.
2021 man forgot “finding info about almost anything, instantly, for free, from home.”
Now imagine if, in 2050, we could find/view books & scientific datasets as easily as we read the web… (in fact, why would it take until 2050? Oh right: copyright law and entrenched practices)
Even without a singularity, 2050 is unimaginably far away. 2050 is as far from 2021, as 2021 is from 1992, a time when there was no mass Internet, no smartphones, no 9/11, Japan was America’s big economic rival, China was still debating whether to continue economic reform, the Soviet Union had just ceased to exist and the European Union had just begun to exist. Half the world population of 2021 wasn’t even alive in 1992.
2021 man forgot “finding info about almost anything, instantly, for free, from home.”
Now imagine if, in 2050, we could find/view books & scientific datasets as easily as we read the web… (in fact, why would it take until 2050? Oh right: copyright law and entrenched practices)