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To: Red Badger

Meh, 2500 years from now we still won’t have cable.


11 posted on 12/31/2024 10:09:34 AM PST by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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To: FrozenAssets

Exactly - when is this Quantum guy going to show up and dig some trench and bury some line?


22 posted on 12/31/2024 10:26:02 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: FrozenAssets

Meh, 2500 years from now we still won’t have cable.

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You missed the story on google’s new quantum chip. That chip is due out in five years. It vastly accelerates modern computing—even with AI. The science fiction stuff is not 2500 years away. Its 10 years away.

Think when you were a kid and watched the Jetsons. You thought all that stuff would happen in 10 or at most—20 years. They imagined it then. But the underlying tools and machines and science were not available.

Now they’re available.

These inventions collapse the time frames for vastly faster scientific innovation which most people cannot comprehend.

There’s a picture of New York City in 1904 with all horses on the street and one car. 10 years later in 1914 there was another picture of the same street with all cars and one horse.

We’re talking about something like that only much much bigger.


31 posted on 12/31/2024 11:03:03 AM PST by ckilmer
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