Clearly knowledge acquisition has accelerated in the last century.
it took the same amount of time to learn how to fly. (ie several millennia)
Yet, once we did, we broke the sound barrier and made it to the moon within 70 years.
it took the same amount of time to learn how to fly. (ie several millennia)
Yet, once we did, we broke the sound barrier and made it to the moon within 70 years.
If we look back 200 years to the 1820s, the world looked quite primitive. Railroads and steamships were exciting:
On top of that, the engineering to even capture data from a brain to begin with is pretty far off.
So what happens first, AGI or traveling at close to the speed of light?