As a writer who also values free information, I'm of two minds about this. But clearly having a freely accessible library that is the modern-day equivalent of the Library of Alexandria on steroids would be a boon to mankind, and destroying it would be a tragedy:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/?utm_source=hpfb
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
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With AI solving math problems that have eluded mathematicians for many decades, we really are in the run-up to the technological singularity...
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Microchip manufacturers are working with different materials to carry Moore's Law beyond silicon: http://www.technologyreview.com/comput...
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"A computer chip that performs calculations using probabilities, instead of binary logic, could accelerate everything from online bank...
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