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Basic technology we have today would have seemed impossible to people not that long ago. I mean they could have easily imagined it, but would have had no reason to believe it to be possible. There's a fun article here [1] where the NYTimes, in response to a failed attempt at flight, claimed that human flight would be basically impossible. Amusingly enough, that article was posted just 9 weeks before the Wright Bros achieved manned flight. After being proven wrong there, they would later go on to claim space flight was impossible. [2]

The point I make here is that there are two possible scenarios here. (1) We've now finally reached the defacto end of revolutionary technology, technology we might imagine yet have no reason to believe could ever really exist. Or (2) we continue on at just another random point in technological development, where our views of today will look as naive as those of the past. And it seems that one of these scenarios is inexpressibly more likely than the other.

[1] - https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...

[2] - https://www.rfcafe.com/miscellany/factoids/ny-times-admits-m...