Why do we even need progress? Big data is serving splendidly in areas like detecting credit card fraud. The hyped areas are all either impossible or criminal. Call it mature and move on to something else.
Great point -- the implicit assumption that continual progress is automatically justified. To be fair, this is probably the product of basic human nature; on the other hand, that it is an aspect of our nature is not justification either.
Why do we even need progress? Big data is serving splendidly in areas like detecting credit card fraud. The hyped areas are all either impossible or criminal. Call it mature and move on to something else.
Great point -- the implicit assumption that continual progress is automatically justified. To be fair, this is probably the product of basic human nature; on the other hand, that it is an aspect of our nature is not justification either.