Before you set out 3/5 Navigation SeverityCartographic IncidentThe route is real, but the signage gets weird enough to deserve a field note.
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SamNav editorialSome of these are probably apocryphal, but making predictions about the limits of technology is really hard: Space travel is utter bilge. - Popular Mechanics, 1949 X-rays are a hoax. - Lord Kelvin, ca....
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Some of these are probably apocryphal, but making predictions about the limits of technology is really hard: Space travel is utter bilge. - Dr. Richard van der Reit Wooley, space advisor to the British government, 1956 Computers in the future may...perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949 X-rays are a hoax. - Lord Kelvin, ca. 1900 I confess
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Read the full essay on Sam Altman's blog
blog.samaltman.com/technology-predictions
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