@22:00 conclusion:

SD: Dr. Azimov, most people when they think about the future try to reach out to the year 2000. Lets try five hundred years from now, what kind of planet do you see?”

IA: One of two depending on what happens by the year 2000. If by the year 2000 we have not solved the problems that face us today, then I would say in five hundred years we’ll see a world containing a technological civilization in ruins. In which there will be a relatively small number of human beings sort of surviving and with New York City as the most magnificent ruin in the history of the human race.

If we succeed in solving our problems of today then in five hundred we could well be living in a kind of utopia…”


Well so much for that!

*vintage
*talks

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That was fun.

There aren't many twenty-three minute videos that I'd sit through, but this was one of them.

And he's very right about how we can't measure or predict the future based only on what we know today.

Progress is a synthesis, and the seedlings of unimaginable technology are all around us, right now, waiting to be put together like jigsaw puzzles.

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