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by hwh 5182 days ago
Well, but those 18 person-years did their part to allow those person-weeks. That is: I agree, technology got far. But there's a second phenomenon involved: human knowledge. Technology steps happen in generations, often restarting from scratch. Knowledge steps on the other hand most come incremental (well, with some losses here and there). We're standing on the shoulders of giants.