A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy

Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by shawn on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:42AM (#16772048)

One way to dispel the idea that everything has been invented is to imagine something small and mundane – but 100 years in the future.

It seems unlikely that people will be writing code or picking out groceries the same way they do today, for example. Some aspects will be the same. But are you sure we won’t be picking out groceries in VR?

Another thing that helps: technological progress seemed exponential over the last century, but in the long term it’s actually sigmoidal. Progress happens in jumps.

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Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by buvanshak on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:48AM (#16772069)

> One way to dispel the idea that everything has been invented is to imagine something small and mundane – but 100 years in the future...

Hasn't people always thought there were living in the pinnacle of technology era? I mean, if you look at texts that are 50 or 100 years old, you can see people chest thumping about how they are in the modern world.

Aren't we doing the same now?

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Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by darepublic on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:58AM (#16774245)

If anything the chest thumping of people 50 - 100 years ago was more warranted than anything similar today imo

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Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by jeremysmyth on Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:23AM (#16780295)

Not in the dark ages. Many folks lived in the shadows of ruins made by much more advanced cultures.

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