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Assuming that human civilization does not either catastrophically collapse, regress, or stagnate, how long do you think it will take for intensive scientific and technological progress (i.e. the discovery of new things, the creation of increasingly advanced and powerful technologies) to reach a maximum extent, and for all future 'progress' to be extensive (extending our physical presence in the universe, creating more of what we already have and so on)?
If humanity exists for another 1,000 years without suffering significant regression or stagnation, will there still be significant unknowns? Or is it likely we will have a complete understanding of the universe, our place in it, and be able to control it and influence it to the maximum extent physically possible?
What about after 10,000 years; or 1,000,000 years?
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Nobody?
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humanity will probably hit a peak in technological advance in a thousand years and then start to plateau
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I'll pick 10000
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>>8555222
>how long do you think it will take for intensive scientific and technological progress to reach a maximum extent
>Assuming that human civilization does not stagnate
Well, under this assumption, it will never stop progressing.
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indefinite because of the cyclic resets
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>>8555222
There will always be unknowns. See Godel's incompleteness theorem. Also there are also things that a person can never know, see Kant's work regarding noumenon.
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>>8555222
give it 50,000 to 100,000 years before we really hit a plateau, and 1,000,000,000 or more before we hit the next plateau.
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>>8555222
It will never stop, the Universe self-complicates recursively without end.
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