Will there ever be a point when we know everything there is to know, and no new technologies and inventions will be possible?
by 
HungryGuy
ANSWERS: 5
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To know if and when we will know everything there is to know, we would already have to know everything. Therefore it is impossible. If you told someone a thousand years ago that we could travel into outer space, or have a real time conversation with someone on the other side of the world (or opposite edge of the flat world as it were) you would have been condemned as a crazy person. So who knows what discoveries the future holds. I believe the end of the world will come before the end of technological advancement. It may be that technology will even prevent the end of the world.
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Perhaps if all people were to start using 100% of their brains (or substantially more than we do) and could then see into the future to see "all ends" before their actual occurrence we would reach a point at which we know all things and then no "new" thing would ever occur. Other than this, far fetched, outcome there will never be an end to the potential for invention.
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In the '60s the nuns told me that "we would attain perfect knowledge upon death" ... and not bloody likely before, while not the response you are looking for it is more likely than closing the patten office
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I highly doubt it. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles Duell, Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
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No,imaganation is unlimted. I'm not even sure GOD has all the answers.
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