An actual blog post for once. Not that anyone reads blogs any more.
I’ve read a lot of Science Fiction over the past 40-odd years.
I’ve read post-apocalyptic and post-collapse stories where people refer to the lost technology of the forerunners, how they had devices that were like magic (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” ~~ Arthur C. Clarke), and how society reached a point of collapse. Usually by war. So much information lost.
Or there is an Outside Context Problem (Iain M Banks) with the same result.
I can’t help thinking that’s what we are on the edge of right now. Maybe generative AI is the Outside Context Problem. Who knows.
I’m just glad that I have more days behind me than in front of me, because I don’t think much of where the future is going.
I’ve lived through the most astounding acceleration of technology in history. I have witnessed the entire birth and evolution of the WWW, and I knew the Internet before the WWW. I have adopted and adapted to a rapidly changing technological landscape that young people simply cannot comprehend (and yet they think people my age cannot understand technology. LOL. We *created* this, you young saps).
Every bubble has to burst, though.
