Nevertheless, we live in a golden age during which real innovation in software is still pretty easy. For thousands of years of history, there was no software at all. Not too long from now, computing will hit physical limits and plateau, and then for thousands of more years, we'll see about as much innovation in software as we do in dining utensils and in concrete. We're lucky to be in this odd middle zone in which innovation is still possible, and we should be grateful and enjoy it while it lasts. Who knows? This epoch of creativity might end before our bodies do.

Strongly disagree. As our abilities to store, process, and generate information about our reality advance, stagnant epochs will surely become shorter and sparser as we approach what ultimately represents the so called singularity. Innovation continues to accelerate, and humans are already developing novel computing technologies and architectures to surpass the limits of current designs.

The rates of technological and scientific development have arguably been increasing since the dawn of mankind[1]. I figure if we see any major progress in life extension in the next 50-80 years, there's a nonzero chance that some people alive today may live long enough to effectively acquire some form of immortality.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change

> Innovation has arguably been accelerating since the dawn of mankind

The left half of any logistic curve looks just like an exponential.