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April 3rd, 2020 at 10:07 pm
I mean, I can see how this might be potentially feasible, but that’s not really how progress generally works. Sure, maybe there’s a genius who makes a breakthrough, but then typically someone works with them, sees what they do, or develops the same technology after seeing the idea and progresses the state of the art. Generally technology only gets better as time passes, by dint of sheer numbers if nothing else. Even if the genius takes most of what they know to their grave, if even 5 people get hints as to what they did, they spread the knowledge to 100 people, and all 100 people working separately or together will advance the tech in both breadth and depth, far past the original inventor.
Now, I guess this tech is new enough that this maybe hasn’t happened yet. And, for whatever reason, it seems to be almost all incompetent malcontents getting their hands on it, instead of the government-funded researchers that would really advance it. But I just get flabbergasted every time I see (mostly in fantasy genre) that “older is better”, “lost spells/technology” that far outpaces what we do now, and “the secret of the ancients” unless they are referring to literal alien races that hung around a while back.
April 5th, 2020 at 4:21 am
It’s only two generations back, so that’s why there isn’t really spread, most likely. Even if you know something is possible, reproducing it still takes time and work. Grin has clearly been working at it, but other than her, we’ve not seen any indications thus far that others are–or that they have access to Artemis’ notes like she does, which would speed up the process. In other words, yes, think it’s a matter of too soon. There could be others who developed the same abilities concurrently, but our story doesn’t focus on those other locales, so we don’t know.
April 7th, 2020 at 8:22 am
It also seems like there’s been very active attempts to stymie the spread of knowledge. Artemis herself was specifically erasing interest in her, wouldn’t shock me that a similar phenomenon made it very difficult for hackers to hit the kind of knowledge critical mass that is really necessary for runaway technological development, to say nothing of the fact that that governments seem to have a blanket policy of mindwipes to deal with anyone who they catch being interested.
As we’ve seen from Gavin and heard about concerning Artemis, a fully realized hacker is the next best thing to a god, vulnerable only to their own hubris and one specific kid.
Seems like basically everyone is motivated to make it harder to do.