People? A few centuries from now?
When people look back on the dawn of the computer age a few centuries from now computers, the internet and AI will all be a part of the same innovation
Submitted 2 weeks ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hundred years ago probably:
“I bet in a century, people won’t remember the steam engine, assembly lines and telegraph, they’ll just remember the Industrial Revolution.
jeffw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Planes and trains are the same! It’s all industrialization!! /s
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
This is called Kondratiev‘s waves and indeed we‘re at the end of the IT cycle. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kondratiev
The new infrastructure cycle for next 40 years is something like renewable energy/ reusable materials, I assume
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or AI will be remembered as the thing that destroyed the internet.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The internet is fine. The underlying systems that network things together still work as the internet is build on simple protocols.
lemmyman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The World Wide Web, then