Hawking said we only have 1,000 years left
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I don't care how smart he was, there's no way anybody can accurately predict that far ahead.
Try going back 1000 years, and predicting modern technology, it's totally impossible. And the rate of change is so much quicker now than it was then, we're almost approaching a technological singularity by comparison.
You might as well say 50 years, but that's terrifying so he said 1000 years.
I was only joking
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He was trying to instill an aspiration to reach for the stars. I'm sure he knew the number was absurdly specific.
Problem about developing technology for getting off the planet, is that the same technology can be used to destroy ourselves.
But we should probably try anyway.
The anti-technologists are probably the only ones with the plausible best move to maintain humanity indefinitely on the planet. But of course we can't go back now. If only we were all Amish.
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I don't care how smart he was, there's no way anybody can accurately predict that far ahead.
Try going back 1000 years, and predicting modern technology, it's totally impossible. And the rate of change is so much quicker now than it was then, we're almost approaching a technological singularity by comparison.
You might as well say 50 years, but that's terrifying so he said 1000 years.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hawking said we only have 1,000 years left:
I don't care how smart he was, there's no way anybody can accurately predict that far ahead.
Try going back 1000 years, and predicting modern technology, it's totally impossible. And the rate of change is so much quicker now than it was then, we're almost approaching a technological singularity by comparison.
You might as well say 50 years, but that's terrifying so he said 1000 years.
I want my warp drive.
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Hawking said we only have 1,000 years left
I think we all learned a lot from the Population Bomb
In The Population Bomb's opening lines the authors state that nothing can prevent famines in which hundreds of millions of people will die during the 1970s
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