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20.10.07 Information Plateau

Is there a limit to human knowledge? Will there come a time when we, collectively, have amassed all the information we can possibly perceive?
Although we are discovering new things all the time, and finding new ways of using things, will there come a point at which we have exhausted our senses (and those senses that we have invented) and we will have detected all we can detect, measured all we can measure and devised all we can devise?
Will this happen, or will we continue to learn - to collect more and more information?
I believe (though not pessimistically) that we will reach a plateau of understanding. this of course will not happen for a good long while yet. We’re capable of adapting and enhancing our senses with technology, and this lets us continue to explore our world. What I foresee happening is a more cerebral problem - that there is a limit to what we can comprehend, a limit to the information we can perceive.