Tech Progress Is Slowing Down
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#2Seems like a weirdly timed article given the new S curve is about to start with ML finding numerous real world applications.
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#3Seems like a weirdly timed article given the new S curve is about to start with ML finding numerous real world applications.
If anything, I take articles like this in mainstream media as a canary in the coalmine that something big is about to happen.
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If anything, I take articles like this in mainstream media as a canary in the coalmine that something big is about to happen.
Can you elaborate what you mean?
Not the GP, but this is how one can view it:
When the leaps in progress are so large that the general public does not understand that they have happened, or see them somehow as lateral moves rather than forward moves, a lot has happened in a short span of time.
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Can’t tell if this is a troll or not. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post not the Wall Street journal.
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#10Seems like a weirdly timed article given the new S curve is about to start with ML finding numerous real world applications.
It’s a promotional piece because Smil has (yet another) new book coming out.
I’ve seen it (thanks Z-Library) and am distinctly underwhelmed. It’s about tech hype and failure but says nothing new and even the rehashes are poorly done, judging from the areas I personally know best.
Vaclav Smil started off as a knowledgeable commentator on sci-tech (his fertilizer book is especially nice) but has devolved to basically a brand, with the work (such as it is) done by an army of grad assistants. Very surface stuff beloved by the likes of Bill Gates who confuse surface with depth.