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Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yeah they are always keeping tech away from us with like a 10 year buffer, tons of examples, digital Time-Based One-Time Password authenticator codes were being used by the CIA in the like late 90s early 2000s, we didn't get them to 2011

the fact IBM is even talking about their Quantum computer and the amount of qubits means they already got one somewhere decrypting everything on the planet and predicting the future and filling in gaps in our historical knowledge and other weird shit you can do with that computational power.

>we're not the first civ
i like this concept and the fact we've mined and exploited all the surface and easily gotten to resources means we're gonna be the last also, harvesting nodules off the ocean floor is becoming more economically worth it due to the cost and maths of surface mining and people unironically talk about asteroid mining and moon bases now because it's a better investment, we're hitting peak oil, peak population growth all while the keys to the next step just happen to fall in our lap like manna from heaven (cryptocurrency,competent private space organization, LLMs, actual AI(maybe) and Quantum) all signs, in my mind that point to a non organic, obviously planned transition to a post nation state type 1 civilization

Thanks a bunch for ur thoughtful reply. Anxiety levels much lower.