Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit
"We have only bits and pieces of information, but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century, all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI."
The Second Renaissance was great. I’ve heard a lot of scifi computers speak but the deadpan delivery of humanity’s end in detail always kind of haunted me.
Ah yes, The Matrix. It kinda shows that that phrase was written in the "end-of-history" 1990s, before 9/11, Putin, Trump, and China really becoming a global player. Mankind definitely seems further away from being "united in celebration" than it was back then...
Dario will re-invest the profit to solve conflict mineral issues all over the world! /j
loading story #50466392