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But this is not the lesson of [[evolution]]. The environment changes dynamically and capriciously, and by survival of the fittest, the prevailing community adapts to it. We are part of the environment, and as we change, so does the environment, and fitness criteria shift. But not in any particular direction. Evolution develops ''away'' from a former state, not ''towards'' one. | But this is not the lesson of [[evolution]]. The environment changes dynamically and capriciously, and by survival of the fittest, the prevailing community adapts to it. We are part of the environment, and as we change, so does the environment, and fitness criteria shift. But not in any particular direction. Evolution develops ''away'' from a former state, not ''towards'' one. | ||
So it | So it isn’t that we are progressing ever more quickly onward, but the place whence we have come falls exponentially further away as our technology meanders, like a perpetually deflating balloon, through design space. Our rate of progress doesn’t change; our discarded technologies simply seem more and more irrelevant through time. | ||
{{Seealso}} | {{Seealso}} | ||
*{{author|Ray Kurzweil}} | *{{author|Ray Kurzweil}} | ||
*{{br|The Singularity is Near}} | *{{br|The Singularity is Near}} | ||