Time-line of the far future. mind = DESTROYED

[Heiber]

[windclimber]

I don't get this. Explain pls

It's kind of like the idea that 100 monkeys on 100 typewriters for 100 years will eventually recreate the works of Shakespeare.

Order coming from chaos.

A lightning strike in the primordial goo creating life; more or less.

You have enough random bits of matter bouncing around, colliding, and doing the damn thing; eventually something tangible and self aware will present itself out of luck or necessity.

[sinfiery]

I guess its an atom that knows its an atom and control where it goes and **** like that.


This **** always blows my mind. Even if most of it makes little sense to me but from the bits i do understand mind=blown.


I think sometimes it would be awesome just to go like 10 quadrillion years into the future and see wtf has hapened to the universe, but all of us who posted wont even make it to 2100..

Fuuuu

The time is now.

[DGreekStallion]

nope, try 100 to 200 years.

You speaking of Monatomic gold?

[EliteJV]

It's kind of like the idea that 100 monkeys on 100 typewriters for 100 years will eventually recreate the works of Shakespeare.

Order coming from chaos.

A lightning strike in the primordial goo creating life; more or less.

You have enough random bits of matter bouncing around, colliding, and doing the damn thing; eventually something tangible and self aware will present itself out of luck or necessity.

mind = blown

[bombdigity]

Aware me

2045

Humans are becoming intimately merged with machines

In some fields, the pace of technology has become so fast that humans can no longer comprehend it - unless they augment their own intelligence. This is particularly true of computing, nanotechnology, medicine and neuroscience, all of which have seen exponential progress.*

The typical home PC of today has an integrated AI system equivalent to over a billion human brains.* This machine can think for itself, communicate with its owner and suggest new ideas in ways that surpass even the greatest minds on Earth. Due to the flood of data being exchanged on the Internet and elsewhere, these computers receive literally millions of emails, status updates, news reports and other alerts each day.*

The only way for a user to interpret this avalanche of information is to merge their consciousness with the machine. A growing segment of society is now turning to on-person hardware to achieve this. The most advanced method involves the use of microscopic, wireless, implantable devices linking neural activity directly to electronic circuitry. These "nanobots" have already been used in full immersion VR and certain medical procedures. The latest versions are capable of marrying AI with human intelligence in ways that combine the best aspects of both.

No monitor or projector of any kind is required for the latest generation of computers. The nanobots instead produce a virtual image of the screen which is augmented in the user's field of vision.




Credit: sellingpix



This operating system is controlled by their thoughts - and those of the AI - running at speeds vastly greater than a real time physical version would allow. Thousands of individual actions can be initiated within a microsecond, thanks to the robust wireless connections between the nanobots and neurons.

If necessary, the user's entire sensory experience can be instantly shifted to a full immersion virtual reality. This is a popular choice for gaming and entertainment, but also has many practical applications in the world of business. Meetings and conferences can be hastily scheduled between vast numbers of participants from around the globe - sometimes with barely a few second's notice - and lasting only a few seconds in duration. Communicating at this speed is no longer possible using conventional means, which is creating an enormous divide between those who have the technology and those who don't.

For many people, nanobot implants are becoming permanent and essential - rather than temporary and optional - due to the bewildering speed and level of information now being encountered in day-to-day situations together with the explosive growth of AI. Military personnel, scientists and medical staff were among the first to take advantage of them, but mainstream society is now following.

People are merging with machines in various other ways, too. Nanobots can boost immune systems, for example - helping to exterminate pathogens. They can also regulate blood pressure, or repair some of the damage caused by the ageing process, or accelerate the healing of wounds. Cybernetic organs are now available that almost never fail and can filter deadly poisons. Brain-computer interfaces are increasingly used in middle class homes to open doors, control lighting and operate everyday appliances.

The most extreme cases of enhancement involve people opting for "decentralised" circulatory systems - along with a form of synthetic blood - reducing physical vulnerability still further. This particular option is only available to the rich, as it involves a highly complicated procedure that radically alters their internal anatomy. The end result is that a person can survive multiple gunshot wounds or other damage relatively easily. Certain politicians are taking advantage of this - especially those in unstable regions - along with gangland bosses and career criminals.

The line between man and machine is starting to blur. Later this century, there will no longer be a clear distinction.

cliffs-because of nanobyte tech, small complex computers implanted in our mind can repair the bodies aging process, etc.

[InSilenceX]

go down to the part about the bulzman brain and read the wikipedia article on it. wtf....

[TIroneous]

Youtube BBC - Wonders Of The Universe. There's some full episodes on there. Can I get some rep!

[steelers1377]

mind = blown

another way of thinking about it is when the universe's power level is over 9000

[DJKhaled]

2045

Humans are becoming intimately merged with machines

In some fields, the pace of technology has become so fast that humans can no longer comprehend it - unless they augment their own intelligence. This is particularly true of computing, nanotechnology, medicine and neuroscience, all of which have seen exponential progress.*

The typical home PC of today has an integrated AI system equivalent to over a billion human brains.* This machine can think for itself, communicate with its owner and suggest new ideas in ways that surpass even the greatest minds on Earth. Due to the flood of data being exchanged on the Internet and elsewhere, these computers receive literally millions of emails, status updates, news reports and other alerts each day.*

The only way for a user to interpret this avalanche of information is to merge their consciousness with the machine. A growing segment of society is now turning to on-person hardware to achieve this. The most advanced method involves the use of microscopic, wireless, implantable devices linking neural activity directly to electronic circuitry. These "nanobots" have already been used in full immersion VR and certain medical procedures. The latest versions are capable of marrying AI with human intelligence in ways that combine the best aspects of both.

No monitor or projector of any kind is required for the latest generation of computers. The nanobots instead produce a virtual image of the screen which is augmented in the user's field of vision.




Credit: sellingpix



This operating system is controlled by their thoughts - and those of the AI - running at speeds vastly greater than a real time physical version would allow. Thousands of individual actions can be initiated within a microsecond, thanks to the robust wireless connections between the nanobots and neurons.

If necessary, the user's entire sensory experience can be instantly shifted to a full immersion virtual reality. This is a popular choice for gaming and entertainment, but also has many practical applications in the world of business. Meetings and conferences can be hastily scheduled between vast numbers of participants from around the globe - sometimes with barely a few second's notice - and lasting only a few seconds in duration. Communicating at this speed is no longer possible using conventional means, which is creating an enormous divide between those who have the technology and those who don't.

For many people, nanobot implants are becoming permanent and essential - rather than temporary and optional - due to the bewildering speed and level of information now being encountered in day-to-day situations together with the explosive growth of AI. Military personnel, scientists and medical staff were among the first to take advantage of them, but mainstream society is now following.

People are merging with machines in various other ways, too. Nanobots can boost immune systems, for example - helping to exterminate pathogens. They can also regulate blood pressure, or repair some of the damage caused by the ageing process, or accelerate the healing of wounds. Cybernetic organs are now available that almost never fail and can filter deadly poisons. Brain-computer interfaces are increasingly used in middle class homes to open doors, control lighting and operate everyday appliances.

The most extreme cases of enhancement involve people opting for "decentralised" circulatory systems - along with a form of synthetic blood - reducing physical vulnerability still further. This particular option is only available to the rich, as it involves a highly complicated procedure that radically alters their internal anatomy. The end result is that a person can survive multiple gunshot wounds or other damage relatively easily. Certain politicians are taking advantage of this - especially those in unstable regions - along with gangland bosses and career criminals.

The line between man and machine is starting to blur. Later this century, there will no longer be a clear distinction.

cliffs-because of nanobyte tech, small complex computers implanted in our mind can repair the bodies aging process, etc.

It sucks that we wont be alive to be able to be merged with machines, I'd like to have the mental processing power of a supercomputer and be able instantly shift to virtual reality

[SuperBrah69]

This sh*t makes me sad that I won't be alive to see it and also very jelly of the people in the future srs.

[arniesays1]

I don't get this. Explain pls

this

[huu]

i highly doubt that. maybe live to 200 years is possible, but 1000!? holy sh!t do you realize how phucking long that is in terms of human civilization. its just not possible if 1/100th of the population lived to be 1000 years old there would be too many damn humans on earth i just don't see it

What kind of cost and who would be able to afford it though?

[Coal Man]

It sucks that we wont be alive to be able to be merged with machines, I'd like to have the mental processing power of a supercomputer and be able instantly shift to virtual reality

actually we will.

Technology and treatment to add let's say about 30 years of healthy life to us will exist in the next 25-35 years. It will remove a vast majority of the effects of aging. Within the next 20-30 years, the rate of such treatment will increase at such a rapid pace that the treatments will get better and better before our expiry dates for the previous treatments reach. Thus in a hundred years or less, there will be no proper distinction between man and machine. SRS. Our generation will be some of the first to live indefinitely. SRS.

[trentntb]

We are at war with the universe, never forget that.



(and this is why, I refuse to believe in ANY sort of religion, to think a man can explain this in todays time is so....smh)

[Theps]

Long story short: The universe will continue to expand until it collapses upon itself and condenses into a hyperdense molecule at which point it will "Big Bang" again and everything will supposedly fall into place identical to the way the universe currently is/was.

False. Even if it were possible for the universe to rebound after a big crunch (with it likely won't because the geometry of the universe is flat and there is not observed cosmological constant, meaning the universe will slow down it's expansion at infinite time), entropy has to continue increasing based on the second law of thermodynamics. The next universe would have many different properties.

[ScuderiaF1]

was just going to post this...makes no sense

It means Earth will likely be impacted by a very large meteorite WITHIN the next 500,000 years.

And yes, this thread did blow my mind.

[ATown10]

That timeline assumes we only have the technology of today at our disposal through all of these happenings. As others have already mentioned, by the time we reach each point on the timeline, we will have likely developed the means to alter or prevent the event. Assuming there isn't another Christian Dark Age and we continue to advance technologically at our current rate, that is.

[trentntb]

False. Even if it were possible for the universe to rebound after a big crunch (with it likely won't because the geometry of the universe is flat and there is not observed cosmological constant, meaning the universe will slow down it's expansion at infinite time), entropy has to continue increasing based on the second law of thermodynamics. The next universe would have many different properties.

wat, universe isnt flat, lol

[innevets]

The time is now.

mind is blown.

[Theps]

wat, universe isnt flat, lol

the observable universe is four dimensionally flat such that the geometry is euclidean, not spherical or hyperbolic. This is based on observational data that shows that spacial triangulation on stellar scales add up to 180 degrees. In the absence of dark energy, a flat universe expands forever but at a continually decelerating rate, with expansion asymptotically approaching some fixed rate. With dark energy, the expansion rate of the universe initially slows down, due to the effect of gravity, but eventually increases.

The universe may infact be curved slightly, only with such a small curvature that it is observationally flat due to its immense size. This is explained by the inflation theory in which the universe expanded at an incredible rate and "stretched" out space during the planck era.

[Delaware2Philly]

If we are to become a "type 1" civilization within the next 100 yrs, what makes you think in a few million years we wont have the wisdom, technology to stop any of this from happening?

[sizeNstrength]

science=mind blown
brb knowing miliininion years into future dont know how to cure certain stds, cancer, aids

not knowing... theorizing.

It was once theorized and considered truth that the earth was flat.

This is all assumptions, guessing, and conjecture... nothing more.

actually we will. The first people to live to a thousand years are already alive bro.

Disagree vehemently.

This generation will never achieve that length of life nor will we be integrated into mechanical parts enough to make it.

Economically, resource wise, and even the degeneration of the brain, skin, blood vessels can not last 1,000 years.

Unless you think "downloading" your brain into a digital complex is living forever... but that is not really "being alive". It might have memory recall but would only have a created "false sense of awareness" for itself and would not be you at all.

living to 1,000 years is very, very far off... if even a possibility

[colinizballin]

Let us presume that aging-prevention technology fails and those responsible for creating this technology somehow fail within our generation. I believe that scientists would at least be close enough to the process of preventing aging that human technology would suggest freezing our bodies or something similar to this upon death.

Once the technology is achieved and successfully implemented, it would then be a possibility to perhaps bring those back to life and reverse the effects of aging and death. At least those who kept their bodies frozen or preserved (or something similar) would maybe have this option.

Unfortunately, generations before us haven't preserved their bodies and have disintegrated into the earth.

Might be a far fetched idea, but just a thought.



EDIT * By the way, this thread is awesome.

[jonnyshap]

And if this happens indefinitely (and has obviously happened in the past) doesn't that mean we'll relive our lives identically?

deja vu MIND = BLOWN

[nine10]

5 stars.

[kiDfortune]

actually we will.

Technology and treatment to add let's say about 30 years of healthy life to us will exist in the next 25-35 years. It will remove a vast majority of the effects of aging. Within the next 20-30 years, the rate of such treatment will increase at such a rapid pace that the treatments will get better and better before our expiry dates for the previous treatments reach. Thus in a hundred years or less, there will be no proper distinction between man and machine. SRS. Our generation will be some of the first to live indefinitely. SRS.

ill see u in virtual reality coal man

[DedSeksi]

scale of an estimated Poincaré recurrence time for the quantum state of a hypothetical box containing a black hole with the estimated mass of the entire universe, observable or not, assuming a certain inflationary model with an inflaton whose mass is 10−6 Planck masses.[37]

wtf

[CULTLEADER]

I know 99% of you already realize this but for those who don't, all the predictions on the future timeline are essentially based off one another and do not take into account potential mind-blowing advances in theory or technology. While I know no one is trying to argue that it is fact, and lots of the predictions are relatively safe picks, imagine if something like this were to happen in a world several years before the automobile or nuclear weapons. All the predictions would be completely off. Not trying to bash the poster of the links, but just wanted to remind people to take it with a grain of salt obviously. The human mind is an amazing thing, and a few new discoveries in technology or energy resources may solve a lot of the problems we are supposedly doomed for.

Still pretty cool and reasonable predictions for the time being though.

[swordfish7]

strong irrelevancy of any calculation beyond ~10^5 years. Our increasing knowledge, and computational ability will probably render these numbers obsolete in a few decades anyway.