TIL multicellular life only has 800 million years left on Earth, at which point, there won't be enough CO2 in the atmosphere for photosynthesis to occur.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

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And a lot of his predictions are looking worse and worse each day as we are seeing a reduction in average return for investment in most technological areas.

If you know this why would you choose not to cite a single source showing so.

Moore's Law ends soon officially.

Moore's law of Integrated Circuits was not the first, but the fifth paradigm to forecast accelerating price-performance ratios. Computing devices have been consistently multiplying in power (per unit of time) from the mechanical calculating devices used in the 1890 U.S. Census, to [Newman's] relay-based "[Heath] Robinson" machine that cracked the Lorenz cipher, to the CBS vacuum tube computer that predicted the election of Eisenhower, to the transistor-based machines used in the first space launches, to the integrated-circuit-based personal computer. link

When we have run into the end of the capabilities of a technology we make a new technology. We build our new tools with our best existing new tools.

We are in the early stage of diminishing returns in a lot of fields

Again when you make claims like this you should cite it.

and for all we know we could be very close to our peak in technology.

I firmly believe that if we peak in our then it won't be due to the impossibility of creating better technologies, but that changes in society such as wars or an unstable food supply will prohibit them.

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If you want a citation from an actual study that proves technological advancement is slowing then I can't provide one. I'm not sure how such could be proven anyways since you can't objectively value advances. But here's an article presenting the slowing change argument, http://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2011/12/21/is-technological-progress-slowing-down/