Why would knowledge, and by extension, technology, necessarily have a bounded limit as a logistic function?
If knowledge is stored in physical entities and physical entities have a limit wouldn’t knowledge have a limit?
Future technological advances must stop…but you don’t have enough information to tell us where it must stop.
Isaac Newton could not have known about nuclear energy. What is it, perhaps, that we don’t know about?
Future technology will not be magic, but, per Clarke’s Law, it might seem awfully like it!
Well, the universe we can actually observe and attempt to understand is finite in extent, so perhaps a sufficiently large, bounded “archive” would encompass the totality of all possibly attainable knowledge.
However, I really don’t think that having a big enough HDD is going to be the obstacle preventing us from attaining galactic expansion as some derivative of H. sapiens.
Well said.
Boy, the OP was right. These discussions can get emotional.
Yeah, good question. I suppose things we leave in orbit will still be around, but they’d have to actually enter the solar system to find them. Something large and twinkly in orbit around the sun? Tabby’s Star (KIC 8462852) has got our attention with its brightness dips. Maybe something large enough with gaps in it, to regularly blink a “hello” signal.
I think we’re ignored because we’re boring. Have you seen 95% of the crap on TV?