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Expecting technology to keep accelerating is a bias of our particular moment; for most of human history the tools did not change at all.

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  1. Adam Frank

    Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester

    So, we could be fooled into thinking like, "Oh, technology's going to go on forever, we're always going to find new advances." As opposed to sometimes things just flatten out for a long time. So, you have to be careful about that bias that we have living in this time of great acceleration.

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