Isn't it weird to think the ability to have cars and TV and to travel to other planets and iPhones and the internet and AI was always there?

[rachel776]

this is an @AviatorTom kind of question, but 200,000 years of humans living without these things, when in their brains the whole time was always the ability to create them

i know one thing builds on the next, but still, most of everything happening in the last 100 or 200 years?

[Nik1hil]

Okay for you answer about civilization based on my ancient +25000 yr of civilization I can answer a Little!

Cars - We didn't had Private cars, because it would require Roads across the Civilization and it was a big Cost, Instead we had Raths, these were Basically Carriages, mostly Driven by Horses, however some records of Mechanical Rath do exist but they were like 2 Bicycles and they have Gear System to go uphills and loaded Springs to Get sudden bursts of Speed if required..

TV - We didn't had TV, but Sages and Yogis , do have channels of Communication they say in Spirit Realm, where they can Broadcast to someone or Publically anything that needs to be said..

Travel Planets - Look up "Vimana" or Planes, "Antriksha Yan" or Rockets, these are 2 Words that have existed and were used in Context of God's traveling on the Planet or between Planets, Our civilization didn't have it, not publically accessible but our So called God's/Aliens did have these.

I phones- nothing like this Existed.

Internet - This Existed, throughout Indian Mythology, Network like Internet often referred as "Akash Vani" or Radio existed, But it wasn't a Public Service that you can buy with money more like secured Service, open to be Used only by Kings and Gods, to ensure equilibrium and Peace on Planet!..

If you want to look into This, You need to Go study about RAVAN the King of Sri Lanka, He was considered a Demon, but he Gained knowledge from God's and Built everything of his Own!.. "Lanka" of Ravan was Apex of Technology..

The last Emperor of India That Had this Technology was " Chakravarti Ashoka" King of Magadh, he Dissolved all technology knowledge after Kalinga War, when he accepted BUDDHISM!. And that Plunged India into Dark Age..

Ashoka knew Alchemy of making "Mercury to Gold" , he had Technology to Make Neuclear Weapons, Such a Shame. Had he not abandoned his Sword in 261 BCE, The Great Nation of India would have never Suffered so much.

[Tarifa]

Technology has taken a giant leap in the last century, maybe two. As you say, one thing builds upon the other. Specialisation is key : in the middle ages, most scholars had knowledge of different fields. Take for instance Leonardo da Vinci. He was a painter, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect. That would be unthinkable today.

But I think our brains have never been fully prepared, nor will they be. How long does it take a software engineer to write a complex code of commands? Part of it is based on knowledge and study, and part on trial and error. I know, I've dabbled a bit in programming. One dot or comma in the wrong spot makes for a program that can't be executed.

Think about speed. Formula one drivers can go up to speeds of 375 kmh or 230 mph. Our brains and reaction times have a biological limit as to the amount of information they can take in. You could make these cars twice as fast, but the limit would be the driver behind the wheel.

Think about primitive societies, whose members have trouble looking at a photograph and don't understand how a third dimension is missing. They flip over the photograph and try to look beyond a two dimensional image they fail to understand.

[Likes2drive]

Problem is that people haven’t evolved or advanced as fast as technology has been going and probably will not be able to keep up with the pace so if all of this had happened a lot sooner, who knows where we’d be at or maybe it did happen and reached a peak and crashed Putting everybody back in the dark ages and having to start all over again could be why it has been taking so long to get there again and maybe it will happen again and again through out earths history and be covered up again. Strange things have been uncovered when they dig really far down or in the right places that can’t be explained because of how old it is

[OneViewpoint]

Knowledge is acquired on an asymptotic curve. It’s logarithmic.

Humanity only hit the steep part of the curve with the industrial age when specialization became possible.

Here’s something to think about. For 60,000 years human technology and social progress were equally stagnant.

In the last 200 years technological change has accelerated dramatically. Social change remains at a standstill. We are still primitives. Only now, the monkeys have nukes and global connectivity.

Why?

[Friendlybro79]

This is really amazing when you think of it. I think the last few hundred years are similar to compound interest.

If you start with nothing it takes a while to accumulate anything. Eventually things start to compound faster and faster. Making your first million could take three times as long as your next. It's something along those lines.

I think tech is like that. Once we got to a certain point we could build on it faster and faster.

What I really like about your point is that it always possible. What a great way to look at it and for the future too.

[Caughtulookin]

I have a theory that may sound unbelievable but possible. Many places on this earth are beyond understanding of the greatest minds.

I believe that every so often tech is created and perfected to eventually cause the destruction of man. The earths natural phenomenons melt and then wash it away to non existence. We haven't a clue how parts of our earth were created nor know the expanse of our oceans and space. Rinse and repeat.

[Caughtulookin]

Lucy Illingworth pianist age of 13 blind and autistic traits.

[Xawyx-2]

Yes, it's a bit weird.

But in the future, people will travel to other solar systems, they will have teleportation technology, and androids as friends, how weird is that going to be?

[AgentG111]

Um we haven't traveled as humans to another planet yet just the moon. I believe you are asking if AI has always been here since like beginning of earth/humans of one form or another?

Nope it came from the aliens.

[Anonymous]

You put your finger on it when you said one thing leads to the next

So the AI boom is happened for a number of reasons.
The affordable cost of computing power
The affordable cost of memory, and disk
Existing sales models eg Google search advertising

[Opinion Owner]

Another advance happening because all the factors are present is: autonomous driving

AI contributes to this too
But also battery technology
Scale
EV technology

[ohsheeT]

And just think when we all awake there is much more

[ohsheeT]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SvcJ11/

[DryGermanGuy]

I think, „Standing on the shoulders of giants“ is a historically very fitting saying. 🤔

[Meatballs]

I'm scared of what the future is going to be like everybody's in you lazy people sitting here looking at phones and looking at AI stuff we're going to be all dumb stupid and lazy

[Aakash_Hangargi]

What's the use though you build something smarter than you are you tend to be the dumber one in near future..

[loveslongnails]

All that and look how stupid most people still are. LOL

[rachel776]

[Sal_Monella]

I cannot help but wonder if there were complete civilizations of advanced creatures, over the last millions of years.

[TallAnon]

The real question is whether this is actually benefiting us as a society, people aren't exactly getting happier.

[CubaPirate]

Imao the Internet is the Devils 😈 window lol

[katiesmuff]

Have never given that any thought!

[MannMitAntworten]

…and there is more to come.