Submitted by basafish t3_zvjgc7 in Futurology
pab_guy t1_j1rqhz0 wrote
We don't even control biology yet, much less high energy and advanced material science applications for all kinds of crazy shit. Space elevators? Climate control? Asteroid mining? All possible with the right advancements and each would be revolutionary on it's own.
There are certain areas where we will have seen a given technology mature or improve to the point where a new paradigm must be found for further advancement, but that's usually in the realm of precision and limits of things at the atomic scale: Moore's law will not survive such limits, for example.
So the future is not a linear progression from here, but there's plenty of technology left to create.
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