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YZFyesterday at 11:26 PM0 repliesview on HN

"Everything That Can Be Invented Has Been Invented"

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/06/23/invented/

The actual quote from 1884 seems to have been: "The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." - Henry L. Ellsworth

Either way we have a lot of things but it's not quite STTNG yet. There's no limit to how much more we can do.