Just How Deep Does The Rabbit Hole Go?

[illwill8710]

Originally Posted by LESfamilia

Originally Posted by ThrowedInDaGame

Originally Posted by LESfamilia

I don't want to add to the "stockpile" of supposedly paranoid conspiracy and Illuminati threads, but I want to look at something from a different perspective. What if we're living in the world that much of the science fiction we're familiar with alluded to...? It's 2010, and while we're not doing that much more than we were doing 50 or even ten years ago, in a sense we are. I was watching a little Twilight Zone with my Dad earlier, and thought aloud, "What would the kids who grew up in the 50s and 60s think if they saw the things that kids today have?" Sometimes I feel like the human brain is so advanced that even we don't give each other enough credit, for whatever reason. What are your thoughts?

Have you decided to ignore the advancements in electrical engineering?

Based on Moore's law by 2050: There will probably be a computer which has more computing capacity than human race as a whole.
I think the computers today are equivalent to a chimpanzee or some !#!%.

I used to be REALLY into this EE, semiconductor, transistor revolution stuff. But I toned it down. Electronics have made huge advancements, but I'll go with what you're saying. There are other fields where the advancements have not been as profound.

LOL... One of my best friends is an electrical engineering major, ironically enough. You and ToySoldier made good points: I had an idea of what I wanted to say in my initial post, but was just stumbling around as to how I would articulate it to everyone else.

I'm definitely going to check out that YouTube clip that was posted on the first page this afternoon, though.

After finding out that Egyptians had the first electrical light bulbs I figured the rabbit hole went way past my comprehension