So much technology, so little talent.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
"Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not."
The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.