Ephemeralization
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Ephemeralization
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#2> is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing,"
Curious, are No-Code tools an example of this?
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#3Realizing that you don't exist, as expressed by nondualist spiritual traditions, would be the ultimate endpoint of this.
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#4Well you can only physically move an object so efficiently.
Unless everything we know about physics is wrong - you'll never be able to move an object w/o any energy. For that reason - it's hard to imagine a world with 7Bn people flying around at mach-2.
Our productivity gains are likely on an S-curve. It's hard to say where we are in the curve.
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#5> is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," Curious, are No-Code tools an example of this?
Smartphones are an example of this, I'd say.
Low/No code usually allows you to do some things, but not everything... IMO.
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#6> is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," Curious, are No-Code tools an example of this?
Smartphones are an example of this, I'd say. Low/No code usually allows you to do some things, but not everything... IMO.
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#7Well you can only physically move an object so efficiently. Unless everything we know about physics is wrong - you'll never be able to move an object w/o any energy. For that reason - it's hard to imagine a world with 7Bn people flying around at mach-2. Our productivity gains are likely on an S-curve. It's hard to say where we are in the curve.
That's a poor example... The theoretical energy expended to move an object is zero.
All energy losses in moving things are due to inefficiencies that we could theoretically engineer away. For example air resistance could be eliminated with roads becoming vacuum tubes. Wheel friction can be eliminated with magnetic levitation. Braking energy can theoretically be fully recovered, etc.
Today we don't do that because we care about other things (cost etc), but if in the future energy costs went up dramatically, engineers would reconsider...
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#8An interesting thought experiment, really.
But when I read:
> the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing"
I add the footnote: "Terms and Conditions may apply" :)
The blind spot of the idea is: limits. Should it be rephrased "eventually you can do almost everything with almost nothing", I'd have dropped the "thought experiment" label.
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#9> is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," Curious, are No-Code tools an example of this?
Smartphones are an example of this, I'd say. Low/No code usually allows you to do some things, but not everything... IMO.
Smartphones... yes. tvs are also an example. I have a flat screen from 2005 and one from this year. the weight difference is hard to believe.
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#10CDs and DVDs are a good example of this. I used to have a wall of my apartment dedicated to media, all completely immaterial now.