Likely singularities
Likely singularities
Posted Dec 11, 2008 0:03 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Likely singularities by ncm
Parent article: Interview: Vernor Vinge
Agriculture seems to be a pretty good example of a worldwide singularity.
The pre-agriculturalists could not have predicted anything much about the
lifestyles of the agriculturalists. It wasn't nice, either for the fading
hunter-gatherers or the agriculturalists: they got much higher population
densities, but it took ten thousand years for human health and lifespans
to regain their probable pre-agriculture norms.
The pre-agriculturalists could not have predicted anything much about the
lifestyles of the agriculturalists. It wasn't nice, either for the fading
hunter-gatherers or the agriculturalists: they got much higher population
densities, but it took ten thousand years for human health and lifespans
to regain their probable pre-agriculture norms.