What Adam Frank thinks about innovation

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Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester, who works on star and planet formation, the search for technosignatures, and the astrobiology of civilisations.

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1. 22 Dec 2024

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

   Their wordsSo, 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.

   ↗Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455youtube.com 16th of 24 in this recording