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So it isn’t that we are progressing ever more quickly ''towards'' something, but the place whence we have come falls exponentially ''further away''. We, and our technology, meander 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 ''towards'' something, but the place whence we have come falls exponentially ''further away''. We, and our technology, meander 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. | ||
The [[singularity]] is | The [[singularity]] is based on perspective chauvinism. {{singularity and perspective chauvinism}} | ||
Come to think of it, the current vogue for grandiose political apology, today, for the cultural transgressions of 17th century explorers is a form of perspective chauvinism, too. | Come to think of it, the current vogue for grandiose political apology, today, for the cultural transgressions of 17th century explorers is a form of perspective chauvinism, too. |