> I do think that if you were to sort of broaden the perspective on the last 40 or 50 years, we are living in a world where there has been significant innovation in information technology, computers – both hardware, software, Internet, mobile Internet. And much less in everything else.
Peter Thiel 觉得最近几十年人类在很多技术领域上停滞不前,而这种停滞被我们在信息技术上的发展所掩盖了;另外一些人则觉得,即使在信息技术上,最近 10 - 20 年中我们也在停滞甚至倒退。这一问题在软件上尤为凸显:We don't expect software to work anymore.
这些人的观点有一个共通点:技术是不会自发地往好的方向发展的;知识是不会自动从上一代传到下一代的;我们现在视为理所应当的技术进步,都是无数汗水和智慧的结晶。
如何才能让技术继续进步下去?或许我们需要更多的人来呼吁这件事情。推荐一篇文章和一个视频:
Nikita Prokopov - Software Disenchantment
Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization