Comment by AndrewKemendo

20% of the human population still is not using the internet

Imagine you’re 70 years old, in rural North Carolina, sitting on your porch wondering why your house has a sheet of ice on it that’s never happened before. Now your already weak soybean harvest that year yields only 30%

Meanwhile your 30-year-old neighbor just had a productive soybean harvest because they covered their crops prior to the freeze based on using the Internet for weather forecasting

That trivial variation between people who utilize information technology to improve their survivability has been happening for the last few hundred years unabated.

This is what the soft singularity looks like