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Originally Posted by glatt
I don't know of any other documentation by somebody who [anything]. You see [anything] all over the place, so there is nothing novel about them. But I figured I would document the process.
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This thread is exactly what is awesome about the internet--and exactly how it has transformed and enriched human culture in a way never before possible.
And I know that there are still people who have no idea this has happened. They are living in the old world. They are literally living on the pages of a history book that we are looking at, from the future. We are in their future; although both sets of people are alive on the Earth at the same time.
Transformations of human culture used to take thousands of years, then hundreds, then decades. At this point, the complete cycle of cultural transformation has taken place in much less than the span of a normal person's adulthood years.
The acceleration continues, and it is exponential.
At some point, change will happen so fast, it will be immeasurable.
The point in time at which this will first occur is referred to by Ray Kurzweil as "the singularity" i.e. the point at which existing models break down and can no longer adequately describe reality.