I had the same milkman as you and still remember doing my degree with a slide rule.
What I think sets us apart and hopefully above the death spiral for our civilization is our ability to adapt … of course that does not guarantee a straight line of progress but it does mean we as a entity will work at surviving.
Remember we only use about 5% of our brains.. (unless you are a politico and then it’s a lot less .. 😊 )……anyway….what’s the rest of it for?
Along this line of thought:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/science/science-breakthroughs-disruption.html
I canceled my NYT subscription so I can't read it, but it's probably based on this Nature article (abstract only) at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x
Interesting data points; thanks.
Yes it was.
I had the same milkman as you and still remember doing my degree with a slide rule.
What I think sets us apart and hopefully above the death spiral for our civilization is our ability to adapt … of course that does not guarantee a straight line of progress but it does mean we as a entity will work at surviving.
Remember we only use about 5% of our brains.. (unless you are a politico and then it’s a lot less .. 😊 )……anyway….what’s the rest of it for?
Ha! I still have my Faber-Castell slide rule.
I would love to see a way out of the death spiral, and it's going to need mucho adaptation and rethinking.
I thought the idea of only using 5%/10% of our brains had been discredited.