A new answer to the Fermi paradox

I read a very interesting blog post about what the new big thing after IoT, drones and 3D printing will be. They name it the continuum. Of course, they are right. Further, recently, I also look at the two pod casts from Kurzgesagt about the Fermi paradox where the filter theory and other ideas about solutions to the Fermi paradox are discussed.

I have previously discussed an idea to a solution, and here is another one:

Maybe the transition for any species from "primitive" to "transcended" is of the order of a couple of thousand years. Thus, the time span is so short that the state we are now is only shared between one or very few intelligent species at a given time. Hence no one to talk to.

The "transcended" state could consist of us morphing into a single organism using the continuum as discussed in the above blog.

Is it time to skip the traffic signs?

Everyone has a personal navigator these days, so when can we start reducing the traffic signs? That would relax driving distraction, reduce cost and make the overall experience in terms of viewing the surrounding more pleasant.


Or maybe there should instead be something to help the GNSS systems, and in extension the autonomous cars, navigate?

Being an artist with focus on topology...

... really limits your audience.

But it also relaxes the requirements on drawing capabilities: