Are we at the peak before the next dark ages...

Are we at the peak before the next dark ages, a massive decline in civilization similar to what took place after the peak of the roman empire?

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Who the fuck made this?
It makes no sense

Nigger get your 9gag ass out of here.

Moore's law is no longer feasible. if we don't adapt soon we'll go into a slump. Not a decline like the picture but a major slump.

The steam engine was the most influential technological development on that chart.

We have to develop the qubit and take advantage of particle superpositioning to continue moore's law

Read this book OP

Wait a minute OP. Your Y axis needs a quantitative variable

Eh, the price could just continue to decrease, processors could get larger, or they could get more numerous. There is still time left.

without the printing press we'd still be illiterate farmers

WE ARE FINE BRO
THE TECH ALWAYS SLOWS A LITTLE BEFORE THE NEXT PARADIGM EMERGES - WE ARE MOVING FROM INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO 3D COMPUTATION

What the fuck is the y-axis supposed to represent? How can it decrease? This was probably written by a redditfag

Replace 'fidget spinners' with 'productive members of society caring what the fuck niggers have to say' and you're on to something.

we'll be lucky if computing is still a thing by 2100

Without gunpowder we'd still be fighting each other with swords and spears. Where only the strongest could survive.

You do know that it could be because more dumb people are being born.

Exactly. How are Fidget Spinners higher than Video Games and Personal Computers? How are Smartphones lower than Social Media? How is The Internet not at least higher than Social Media?

Hence the reason for AI and for us to stop feeding the overwhelming 3rd world.

We are living in a time that in the future will be considered a dark age, because we'll leave next to no written information after us. Our data will be lost between the physical media of pen and paper of the last century, and permanent storage in the future.

The technology we have is fugitive. It is not permanent. Our footage, our records, even our laws, are being placed on digital platters, encoded in ways that will make them irretrievable in a century. Already, code and data in obsolete languages, COBOL, FORTRAN, and the likes are being lost. Even optical storage is not as long-lived as previously claimed, studies of optical storage media indicate that it has a lifetime of less than half a century before data corruption starts to creep in. Our technology is in many ways inscrutable - solid state storage and integrated electronics are likely to be bricked and unreadable, making it even more impossible to reverse-engineer the storage data for many files. Print media is little better - the use of acidic papers results in crumbling within 150 years - the books and magazines we keep will be dust while the vellum manuscripts of the medieval age survive far better.

The horrible truth of the matter, the vast, vast majority of our data will be lost within this century, yet alone 1000 years. We will leave a far greater volume of archaeology, but in the long run, the late 20th and early 21st century will be known more for radioisotope spikes, then our cultures.

It's not measuring the achievement level just the amounts of achievements. Quantitative not qualitative.

Now how about overlaying a graph of the population of Africa

Just use golden records then.

Read this my man

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if you think the remaining 'smart' people will be getting funding and opportunities, i have bad news...

HUMANS ARE BEING REPLACED WITH AI ANYWAY

EXCEPT BECAUSE THE COSTS OF STORAGE KEEP GOING DOWN EXPONENTIALLY - WE KEEP COPYING AND BACKING UP OUR INFORMATION FOR NEXT TO NOTHING

Well, then the mythology and speculation about this time will be greater. The 25th century David Icke will have a field day with us.

>Abortion Pill
Get out!

so your point of technical decay is figdet spinners? based on that chart you are an overreacting panzy, but there is a chance we will peak soon. fidget spinners may be dumb but they are no more dumb than the snuggy or whatever.

3D ICs are pretty likely. I already have an HBM GPU and a 48-layer VNAND SSD.

The problem is power consumption and heat, but power scales roughly with the square of the frequency. Double the number of transistors (i.e, double the number of layers), and cut the frequency by 30%, and you get a processor with 40% more throughput with the same amount of power. The only limit to this is when power gets so low that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle makes it impossible to measure the state of a transistor, but if we do this process every year, we can continue this for over a century.

Of course, no program is infinitely parallelizable, so what we're likely to see is more diversity in our processors. Plus, the fundamental limits are around the point that you're working with nanohertz machines, so it's not extremely practical for everything. We'll have CPUs with high clock speeds and small numbers of cores, GPUs with low clock speeds and large numbers of cores, and dozens of different types of things that fall somewhere inbetween.

lol

>fidget spinners
Holy fuck I'm laughing so hard. This pic is satire in case you missed it.

>Social media bretty gud
>Autism spinners no kwite as gud

"I know not with what weapons ww3 will be fought, but ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones" -Einstein

Holy fuck, no. Artificial intelligence will create ridiculous technical growth. Like, imagine a genius like Einstein if he could think without tiring, had access to the entirety of human information and could improve upon his own brain. He'd be able to think circles around the rest of mankind, getting faster and faster. Whoever develops the deep learning algorithm that lets a computer learn & build itself will rule the world

What if the computer then starts ruling the world?