Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Apr 9, 3:00 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> > Destiny is a little fatalistic for my tastes :-) But logic would seem
> > to dictate that if human civilization survives even 50% of the time
> > remaining before the Sun becomes a problem then the technology to live
> > elsewhere, or even repair the Sun (we are after all a nostalgic bunch)
> > should be available :-)
>
> Right.  I almost went further and said "or mankinds heirs", but
> decided to reel it in a bit.  ;-)  But on the timescale we are
> talking about here, many things are possible...

I feel pretty optimistic about such things. After all, the last 200
years has taken us from sailing ships and steam engines to Saturn V's,
Intel Core Duo's, etc.

I've always felt the next great apex in technology is AI - something I
still believe most of us here will live to see. Such a
transformational technology, perhaps mostly because how interesting it
would be to see how as a civilization we use such powerful technology
from a social perspective.

Matt