Okay so think back to 1716. Take a moment, and seriously use your imagination here.
Imagine showing those (soon to be frightened people)
Jets, cars, cell phones, computers, space craft, cameras, radar, lasers, catscans,
the internet, etc etc.
Imagine an 18th century mind trying to wrap its head around ANY of those things.
Do you seriously think they
WON'T have Tricorders or something even MORE amazing in 300 years?
Seriously?
Wow. Just wow.
LOL
I knew someone was going to pull that argument. BTW thanks for the "Wow...just wow" implying that I'm a total idiot.
In case you didn't know technology doesn't advance at a constant and predictable pace.
The space program is a perfect example. Yeah we send up more satelites and probes and crap, but how far have we advanced in other ways in the last half decade.
Let's see in 1961 America sent up its first man into space for a 15 minute flight. 8 years later we were walking on the moon. Since 1969 what has man done to further humans in space...well we haven't been back to the moon, talked about maybe going to Mars someday and taken all the technology we've had to build one space station that 5 people can live in at a time and has to be constantly resupplied. The rockets we use are actually less sophisticated than the Saturn V was and many would argue that the Space Shuttle a step back from the Apollo program.
So since 1969 we haven't even stepped forward a single inch as far as manned exploration have made some fairly modest gains as far as living in space and, despite all the crap you hear about mars, are several decades, if not a century or more from being able to pull that one off. According to you we should have colonized Mars by now and be well on our way to other places.
In aviation there is this amazing airplane that has holds record for speed and altitude for a pure airplane, employs many extremely unique construction techniques and materials and is considered by many to be the most sophisticated plane ever built to this day........oh and it made it's first flight in 1964- the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Why if we're always advancing hasn't this plane's records and much of its technology been surpassed in 50 years?
Oh and guess what....swords have been around for centuries but they kept improving them in various ways, but eventually they hit a plateau and there is pretty much no way to make a sword any better than the best ones that have ever been made.
Cars are more sophisticated than 10 years ago, but the rate at which each subsequent generation of automobile is advancing is slowing over time. Cell phones 10 years from now are going to be a lot less advanced compared to the ones now from 10 years ago. And as for LOOK AT ALL THE AMAZING THINGS CELL PHONES CAN DO TODAY.....well most of those amazing things they can do are because there is a huge network of towers, satelites and other things that the phone picks up on. The cell phone itself doesn't do all those things, it just relays information that extremely complex networks transmit. You think a device that can fit in your pocket is going to do all the incredibly varied and complex things the tricorder can do and do it instantly on its own even in 300 years. Well I guess the Enterprise will be flying around at warp speed too. They'd better get moving though in 1/6th of that time we haven't been able to further the world speed record for a plane. But I'm sure we'll go from a space craft going from 25,000 MHP to the speed of light by then.....
Hate to burst your bubble but technological advancements aren't going to advance at the rate we've seen in the last couple of decades forever. Eventually things like computers and the like, if they haven't already, will hit a plateau and advancements will be at a much slower rate.
You remind me of those people who would say in 1930 "By the year 1950 we'll be flying around in cars" Then in 1950 they say it'll happen by 1980, then by 2000, then by 2030.....Let me know when the common flying car project gets off the ground and then talk to me about something like a tricorder
Wow.....just wow......
