Stryderunknown said:
Mikey, You mention "Quantum Leaps in technology" and you seem to think us humans are incapable of generating technology and move it such an advance.
Ah, human patriotism. I don't care for humans to be honest.
Think of it like this, before Charles Babbage, people used things like an Abacus to carry out mathematics, and complex mathematics could take years for people to write out and plan. As soon as the first computation engines began to be created it changed our world forever.
Mathematics was sped up, even The Agrarian/Industrial Revolution created things like Seed Drills, Four course crop rotations, Spinning Jenny's, Steam Engines, Trains, Mass production and Unions etc.
When one founding Scientific discovery was made, it laid the path for others to follow and with each increase in technology by man it was made to be easier for others to adapt and retrofit to be even better at it's job or easier to use.
(Especially in with the usage of Automated systems that deal with remedial self replicative tasks that us humans would get bored or strained from.)
Yes, they are natural progressions - you just missed something:
Abacus was invented 2000 years+ ago . 1623 years later, the first mechanical calculating machines were used by Kepler. These mechanical machines were further worked on, till Charles Babbage invented the differential analyzer in 1838. 300 years of using developing mechanical calculating machines, finally saw the use of the vacuum tube, for the first electronic computer.
300 years of mechanical computers, with no real use
10 years of vacuum tube computers
10 years later transistor computers
10 years later intergrated circuit chips
10 years later the microprocessor
10 years later nanochips and quantum computers
The time it took for the perfection of the vacuum tubes(40 years) bearing in mind, this is only one technological component; we have completed 4 generations of technology.
You can check this with any technological component. Steam engines took 200-300 years to put to use. It took 100+ years to develop a reflecting telescop. It took 300+ years to put a damn trigger on a gun.
There has been a huge quantum leap. That's something no one can deny. Just 100 years ago we were being driven by horse-pulled buggies, and using steam to power our factories.
This "evolution curve" still seen today, original coding a program could take more than 5 years to do all the necessary things before a retail version was created, however techniques have been ergonomically formed and now coded programs will allow people to output Retail games in under 1 year.
In fact Mikey I would suggest analysing those worlds "Evolution Curve" because technology doesn't increase at a steady angular rate, it curves until it points straight up. (although I'm not going to explain what that entails then because it might start you on a whole new theoretical voyage that you might not be able to handle until you get to terms with the current one.)
No Stryder. Eventually the technological curve will point up, but it will happen gradually. It won't just shoot up at an acute angle. It's like starting a curved line at the bottom left of a paper(use it all) curve the pencil upwards, and then suddenly just shoot the pencil vertically up. If you think that is natural; then you should retake statistics at college.
The case is pretty much sealed shut mate:
1: Quantum leap in technology
2: Nasa, NSA, CIA, USAF claiming reverse engineered ETI technology
3: 86% of those claims fully confirmed today(none proven wrong)
That is the bottom line. Leg go, in your own time. No pressure