• einkorn@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Well, I read somewhere in the 1800s an official in a major patent office resigned because he believed there was nothing new to invent/patent left.

    Might be we will look back at our time right now the same as we do at the 1800s at the brink of a technological revolution.

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      3 months ago

      The “nothing more to invent” is an age old fallacy. And not at all what I stated.
      Obviously there is still room for lots of invention, but the so called low hanging fruits are getting rarer.
      If the goal is a fully automated society where we don’t need to work, we have a long long way to go yet.