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{{Image|Transfagarasan|png|A [[metaphor]] for immutable progress of civilisation, yesterday.}} | {{Image|Transfagarasan|png|A [[metaphor]] for immutable progress of civilisation, yesterday.}} | ||
''The [[JC]]’s very own coinages {{tm}}''</br>}}{{d|Perspective chauvinism|/pəˈspɛktɪv ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzm/|n|}} | ''The [[JC]]’s very own coinages {{tm}}''</br>}}{{d|Perspective chauvinism|/pəˈspɛktɪv ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzm/|n|}}Our own coinage for the fallacy of judging obsolete tricks, technologies or ideologies by contemporary standards — evaluation criteria that, [[Q.E.D.]], weren’t relevant when the old technologies or ideas were in fashion. | ||
This is a little like being told, when you are being dumped, “it’s not you; it’s me” — the only difference being in this case (i) it is not disingenuous, but true, and therefore (ii) the dump ''er'' is therefore a lot less likely to ''say'' it. | This is a little like being told, when you are being dumped, “it’s not you; it’s me” — the only difference being in this case (i) it is not disingenuous, but true, and therefore (ii) the dump ''er'' is therefore a lot less likely to ''say'' it. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
Come to think of it, the current vogue for grandiose political apology, today, for the cultural transgressions of 17th century explorers, then, is a form of perspective chauvinism, too. | |||
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*[[Evolution]] | *[[Evolution]] | ||
*{{author|Ray Kurzweil}} | *{{author|Ray Kurzweil}} | ||
*{{br|The Singularity is Near}} | *{{br|The Singularity is Near}} | ||