According to Shen Yue, the concept of a knowledge explosion had already been proposed many years ago during his era. But in modern times, this view is rarely mentioned.
Why is that?
Perhaps it is because the storage of knowledge has fundamentally improved.
From the earliest paper tape arrays, to floppy and hard disks, up to the current commonplace capacities measured in terabytes, making people feel that the knowledge explosion is no longer an unsolvable problem.
No matter how much knowledge there is, it can be stored.
But this seems no different from corrupt officials piling up money and jewels until they rot away.
People store knowledge without wanting to organize it, so what is the use of storing so much knowledge? Even if there finally appears an artificial intelligence that can organize and summarize, accelerating the extraction process, if the foundation of extraction is flawed, how can people expect to get the correct results from a mistaken basis?
