Comments by "Moop" (@joeis18) on "Fermi Paradox: The Great Filter is Near" video.

I'm about 15 years younger than you. I was very, very young when I had my first cell phone, but I already knew what it would be; i was only 13, but the phone became all of the things I wish it did. Every year, something else I wish it did became rolled into one. The phone didn't really do anything that couldn't already be done, but it put all of those capabilities in one tool. If you want to know where phones will be in the future, just look at tools you already use but aren't on your phone,or ways to access that information that make the process faster. Think about times that your phone should know what you want before you know what you want because it's been observing your for decades. That's where it will go; they will become more and more like Cortana. They make not develop personalities, but if we want them to, they could.
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I bet it's something about stars. Solar flares that set civilizations back to the medieval era every few hundred years. If it happens enough times and people keep forgetting, then that'd do it.
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