Ok, ok, I get it, some kind of long distance communication was imaginable 200 years ago. It's highly debatable whether or not anyone could imagine the internet in it's current form, it's very amazing with giant fiber optics spanning the oceans, wireless signals allowing massive mobility, connections to every home, but it's completely irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.
My original point was that the person I was replying to was saying the technological singularity (AI becoming smarter than humans or possibly taking over the universe) things were impossible, I was simply saying that because some people have trouble imagining advanced technologies doesn't mean that they are impossible.
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Ok, ok, I get it, some kind of long distance communication was imaginable 200 years ago. It's highly debatable whether or not anyone could imagine the internet in it's current form, it's very amazing with giant fiber optics spanning the oceans, wireless signals allowing massive mobility, connections to every home, but it's completely irrelevant to the point I was trying to make.
My original point was that the person I was replying to was saying the technological singularity (AI becoming smarter than humans or possibly taking over the universe) things were impossible, I was simply saying that because some people have trouble imagining advanced technologies doesn't mean that they are impossible.