Okay, so this guy that’s a psychiatrist for the pentagon says that if you plot important technological innovation against population, it peaks in 1873 and goes downhill from there. This isn’t too surprising if it’s true (though I question what he counts as “important technological innovation”) since man has already plucked all the low-hanging fruit and all we have left is weird discoveries that won’t help as much feed anyone or kill anyone. hehe. It does piss me off how the people disagreeing with this guy say “nonsense! Bandwidth and processor speed increase exponentially!” Yeah, they are kinda missing the point. Making a bigger car isn’t an invention. We already have cars!
This also supports the assertion I always make that from this point forward, value will only come from difficult toil. A programmer who only knows VB.net isn’t going to make anything of value and that’s why I encourage you all to learn hard sciences - Physics, Biology and Chemistry. If you must learn computer science, learn the lower-level stuff; learn asm and processor design. Code your own OS. But for Dog’s sake, don’t whip up a script in Perl that hurls random insults or jokes and act as though you accomplished something! Everyone should know Perl. Everyone. Smart people should get busy and get good at science. Or, as Einstein put it:
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein