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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by leereeves on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:25AM (#13425342)
We're stacking transistors measured in nm into worldwide communications systems, compelling simulations of reality, and systems that learn.

The scale is immense, so everything is built in multiple layers, each flawed and built upon a flawed foundation, each constantly changing, and we wouldn't achieve the heights we do if perfection, rather than satisfaction, was the goal.

Perhaps at some point the ground will stop shifting.

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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by bane on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:07AM (#13426032)
Sure we would, it would just take longer. A thousand years instead of 50. But just like we still use bridges and roads thousands of years old today, our distant descendents would still be using the exact foundations of what we produce now.
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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by leereeves on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:23AM (#13426112)
Sure, eventually we would get there. But we wouldn't be as far as we are at this moment.
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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by rednerrus on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @09:33AM (#13426504)
You mean holding it all together with duct tape and chewing gum?
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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by leereeves on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:14PM (#13428675)
I mean being able to communicate with people around the world in real time, and all the rest.
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Re:Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during producti... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:45AM (#13425688)
> Perhaps at some point the ground will stop shifting.

Doubtful. Machines will build the ground instead, and what they build on top of it will be incomprehensible to us; at least we'll get to observe in awe.

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