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Old 01-12-2008, 06:28 PM   #271
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Exactly. Is there a point where science stops being useful (exponential discoveries, not lateral ones) because we simply can't understand what it tells us? Or will we continue to 'get smarter' through the generations and use science to get more and more useful answers?

All of this stuff can become so mind boggling.
Lol awesome question! Mabybe once we invent AI, it will do the understanding for us, inventing new AI's that are better than itself while it exceeds our ability to ever understand. We would become its pets.

Crap there's a short story like this..

Oh yeah, The Last Question by Asimov!

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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