Comments on: Past Future Shock https://blog.speculist.com/healthmedicine/past-future-sho.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/healthmedicine/past-future-sho.html#comment-8725 Stephen Gordon Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:34:59 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=374#comment-8725 EP:

I doubt that he’d be too surprised that it takes all the running we can do to keep in the same place.

He’d probably tell us that if we want to actually get somewhere, we’ll have to run at least twice as fast as that.

]]> By: Engineer-Poet https://blog.speculist.com/healthmedicine/past-future-sho.html#comment-8724 Engineer-Poet Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:09:54 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=374#comment-8724 I’ve had that feeling too.  Makes you feel like it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place (oh, if the Rev. Dodgeson could be alive today, what would he make of it?).

]]> By: Karl Hallowell https://blog.speculist.com/healthmedicine/past-future-sho.html#comment-8723 Karl Hallowell Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:09:00 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=374#comment-8723 If so, then we must have hit the Singularity by now. ;-)

]]> By: Enphilistor https://blog.speculist.com/healthmedicine/past-future-sho.html#comment-8722 Enphilistor Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:58:45 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=374#comment-8722 Hmmmmm…I wonder if it could be that exponentially accelerating knowledge thingy??? Nah!

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