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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technological progress is not generalizable in the abstract. For hundreds of years human built faster and faster means of transportation and yet the record for fastest human vehicle remains 1969 appollo 10 mission.

There are hard limits to physics. It is not malleable without limit.

Magic leap said they were going to shrink down their light field tech a decade ago but gave up. The reality is that this technology may just not be physically possible.