To: WyldKard
It will be like magic! Actually think of it ...if a person from the middle ages somehow came to life he would think almost every single thing we have today is some sort of sorcery! We fly, we can communicate with someone miles away (or even on other continents), we have gone to the moon, we can see for miles with a telescope, we can wage war with weapons that seem to have come from the gods etc etc etc!
It would seem like total magic to them.
I just wonder how developed tech will be a century from now (all things remaining constant). It should be amazing (again all things remaining constant).
4 posted on
10/02/2002 2:59:14 AM PDT by
spetznaz
To: spetznaz
It will be like magic! Actually think of it ...if a person from the middle ages somehow came to life he would think almost every single thing we have today is some sort of sorcery! We fly, we can communicate with someone miles away (or even on other continents), we have gone to the moon, we can see for miles with a telescope, we can wage war with weapons that seem to have come from the gods etc etc etc! Shoot! My grandparents were born in the 1890s. They experienced seeing their first car and being frightened into hiding to watching men land on the moon on TV.
The technology boom of the 20th century still has me amazed. And to think what 21st century technology boom may be. Scary when we read what the eggheads are talking about trying.
5 posted on
10/02/2002 3:29:29 AM PDT by
Ghengis
To: spetznaz
It will be like magic!Clarke's Third Law
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
6 posted on
10/02/2002 3:39:30 AM PDT by
Jaxter
To: spetznaz
A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, as A.C. Clark once said...
I just hope that as technology gets more and more scary that we don't end up accidentally wiping ourselves off the face of the Earth. If we ever really develope nanotech..very scary stuff you can do with nanites. Grey Goo scenarios come to mind...
9 posted on
10/02/2002 4:52:41 AM PDT by
WyldKard
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