Since human knowledge is increasing exponentially, on what magic day will we learn all that is learnable?

Question

It's rather like the doubling of cpu power every 16 months.

I heard long ago it's around 2016, so hang on...it's going to be a wild 10 years!

Answer 1

October 13th, 4772.
It's a Friday, so that's cool.

Answer 2

Never. One the human mind is finite, how could we possibly know all there is to know. And the amount we know is small considering the vastness of all the infinite universe. I believe we will come to understand most of the known universe, but will never truely know everything. There will always be those unknowns.

Also that law that states CPU power increases while chip size decreases, is quickly hitting a brick wall. Current technology pushes the envelope of the physical world. The only way computers will be able to keep up that breakneck pace would be through designing more efficient ways to process information. I.e. a technological revolution that would render our current PC technology obsolete.

Answer 3

On some minute level, every second some one (or something) has a new experience that can never be completely duplicated.

In other words, knowledge is subjective. Just because two people may experience or learn the same thing, they don't necessarily experience it or process it the same way.

Until we find a way to literally see through each others' eyes we can never truly know everything.

Besides that, we have no idea what goes on beyond the borders of our tiny little planet.

Answer 4

Just as the universe is expanding, the amount of stuff to learn and know is expanding so there's not going to be any "magic" day where we learn all that is learnable.

And, judging from the quality of most of the questions and answers on this site, there are a lof of folks will never, ever come anywhere near learning all that a chimp can learn....

Answer 5

You remind me of the guy who wanted to close the Patent Office because everything that was worth inventing, had already been invented. That was about 100 years ago.

There is simply no such thing as learning all that is learnable.

Answer 6

last day the species is around?

Then we will just shake our heads and become extinct with a more suitable species taking over. Well if not more suitable, at least a tad nicer than we humans.

For all of our knowledge, it is the belief in the fantasy of religion that will be our end. Rather ironic I think.

Answer 7

W have the answer, it's 42, unfortunately, if we find the question the univesrse will collapse upon itself and start over even more strange, and odd than it is...

All the great geniuses knew one thing "I know nothing" to know everything is relative, especially because the universe is so strange. lets just say this. If your waiting, hold your breath, we don't need your kind in the gene pool. If you don't don't worry about it. The more we know the more questions we come up with. it's the way of things. There wil never be a full knowledge. just worry about what you need to know and you'll be fine. you wait for everything to be known and you'll die a eternity before it happens.

Answer 8

Hi. Wow, that is a show of amazing confidence. Do you really think someday we will have learned everything there is to learn? In some ways, I hope not because things would be so dull after that. I like to imagine that knowledge is never ending, it just keeps unfolding. The more you discover, the more there is to discover. I think that's a lot more fun, but then, I may not be all that smart. :)

Answer 9

I disagree with your premise that human knowledge is increasing exponentially.

Each one of us is born as fresh and new as the last generation.

Every person has to learn for themselves about the realities of life and death. Sometimes it takes twenty years, sometimes it take eighty. The human race is no wiser than it was a thousand years ago. We just have fancier gadgets.

Answer 10

I think the Earth will be destroyed before that day comes... Do you realize how huge the universe is? We'll never explore the entire universe... And now we think there may be multiverses??? They think black holes may be gateways between universes, but if light can't even escape it's gravitational pull, then how can we ever expect to invent anything that will be able to travel through one of those things and explore the other side???

Answer 11

That's sort of like asking what is the biggest possible number, isn't it? Considering the size of the universe, it's unlikely that we could predict a particular date (or year, or millennium, or eon) for this breakthrough any time soon.