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mk  ·  4427 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: are parents ever not strange?

I've often joked that someday my grandchildren will spend their time moving their hands through empty space in complicated patterns that I cannot understand. Every once in a while, they will smile or snicker, and I won't have a clue.

However, my hope is that adaptation might be a part of my generation and those younger than me. As you note, the baby-boomer generation seems to be on the other side of the gap. However, during their formative years, technological advance was relatively slow-paced. So perhaps they didn't adopt technological adaptation as a life-skill. That said, you might be right about the changing speed of advance. We might be more able to adapt to new technology than the boomers, but the rate of change might be something that we can't manage.

Still, there has to be a human limit to the rate at which one can adapt, and therein lies the premise for singularity.