The anniversary of the moon landing is a great reminder of how it messes with your expectations to be on a "we thought it was exponential!" technology curves when it flattens out, as is happening with computers today. I gave a whole talk about this! https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm …
-
-
Computers are in this phase now. Devices will get more efficient, data centers will get more enormous, but you're never going to have a 17 GHz CPU in your laptop. And we're never going to have a Singularity. Which is a relief, because those people were incredibly annoying
Show this thread -
Anyway, just think about how insane it would have sounded in 1965 to argue that the U.S. would have no moon bases—in fact, no human space flight capability of any kind—in 2020, even though there had been no nuclear war. That's what it feels like to top out on exponential growth!
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
quite certain that the landmark movie "2001 - A Space Odyssey" had absolutely nothing to do with this notion of space travel


Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I initially read the card as “First Moon Fights”, and I’m pretty happy about that.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
i got on their list
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
If you haven’t read https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10544.html …, you should.
-
Thank you!
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.