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Posted April 04, 2018 06:26 · last edited April 04, 2018 06:35

paulm wrote:

Ryan wrote:

What's naive about it? If you look at the accelerating rate of change then there is no indication whatsoever that it's going to slow down.

I think you're confusing the technological rate of change with the societal/cultural rate of change. 

No, they're both moving at massive speeds and one fuels off the other. It took one hundred years between the abolition of slavery in the US and allowing non whites to vote, and then less than 50 years from that for a non white person to be president. That seems to be accelerating societal change to me.

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paulm wrote:
Ryan wrote:

What's naive about it? If you look at the accelerating rate of change then there is no indication whatsoever that it's going to slow down.

I think you're confusing the technological rate of change with the societal/cultural rate of change. 

No, they're both moving at massive speeds and one fuels off the other. It took one hundred years between the abolition of slavery in the US and allowing non whites to vote, and then only 45 years from that for a non white person to be president. That seems to be accelerating societal change to me.

Unknown editor edited April 04, 2018 06:34
paulm wrote:
Ryan wrote:

What's naive about it? If you look at the accelerating rate of change then there is no indication whatsoever that it's going to slow down.

I think you're confusing the technological rate of change with the societal/cultural rate of change. 

No, they're both moving at massive speeds and one fuels off the other.

Unknown editor edited April 04, 2018 06:32
paulm wrote:
Ryan wrote:

What's naive about it? If you look at the accelerating rate of change then there is no indication whatsoever that it's going to slow down.

I think you're confusing the technological rate of change with the societal/cultural rate of change. 

No, they're both moving at the same speed and one fuels off the other.