***Makes You Think.*** How Advanced Our Technology Would Be After 100,000 Years???

[CuriousAndy]

This is 10,000 years after we're talking about.. July 3rd, 102,001 A.D.

I must emphasize we're not talking about the future you see on Sci-fi movies or novels that takes place only in 500-1000 years after. I'm talking about 100,000 years!!!

Honestly, I believe we would be extinct far ago before it even reaches 100,000 A.D mark.. It is in our human nature to destroy ourselves.. (war, pollution, etc...) Do you notice that us, humans are the only mammals that is able to destroy Earth's environment? We don't truly belong in the nature chain.. All other creatures on earth; mammals, insects and all, exist in perfect harmony maintaining the equilibrium of nature pyramid.. We, humans don't. We have the capabilities to destroy the earth, exterminate other species. One very practical example, we have invented atomic bombs.. with that we can nuke ourselves to death and everything on earth.. it's just the matter of 'not doing it' You get my drift?

Ok, enough with my philosophy, If we DO end up living by 102,001 A.D, I think we would be advanced far beyong our imagination.. I'm not talkning flying cars or massive StarTrek ships.. that is not that far away from now.

I believe in the year of 102,001 AD, our technology would allow us to evolve ourselves to something FAR greater.. We wouldn't need conventional ships or cars.. We would evolve to something psionic being.. an omi-present entity that wouldn't require obsolete physical bodies.. or forms.. Something GOD-LIKE...

Anyone get my drift? I'm not talking about the future that's near by.. I'm talking about 100,000 years after

What Do YOU think??

<< In the year 102,001 A,D, I think... >>



I think I've been watching too much crazy sci-fo japanese animes.. (like Akira, Evangelion.. so on)

~mOo

 

[kami]

Hmm, this made me think of one of my favorite short stories...here it is...

The Last Question
By Isaac Asimov

The Story begins in the year 2061, when a colossal computer has solved the Earth's energy problems by designing a massive solar satellite in space that can beam the sun's energy back to earth. The AC (analog computer) is so large and advanced that its technicians have only the vaguest idea of how it operates. On a $5 bet, two drunken technicians ask the computer whether the sun's eventual death can be avoided or, for that matter, whether the universe must inevitably die. After quietly mulling over this question, the AC responds: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

Centuries into the future, the AC has solved the problem of hyperspace travel, and humans begin colonizing thousands of star systems. The AC is so large that it occupies several hundred square miles on each planet and so complex that it maintains and services itself. A young family is rocketing through hyperspace, unerringly guided by the AC, in search of a new star system to colonize. When the father casually mentions that the stars must eventually die, the children become hysterical. &quot;Don't let the stars die,&quot; plead the children. To calm the children, he asks the AC if entropy can be reversed. &quot;See,&quot; reassures the father, reading the AC's response, &quot;the AC can solve everything&quot;. He comforts them by saying, &quot;it will take care of everything when the time comes, so don't worry.&quot; He never tells the children that the AC actually prints out: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

Thousands of years into the future, the Galaxy itself has been colonized. The AC has solved the problem of immortality and harnesses the energy of the Galaxy, but must find new galaxies for colonization. The AC is so complex that it is long past the point where anyone understands how it works. It continually redesigns and improves its own circuits. Two members of the Galactic Council, each hundreds of years old, debate the urgent question of finding new galactic energy sources, and wonder if the universe itself is running down. Can entropy be reversed?, they ask. The AC responds: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

Millions of years into the future, humanity has spread across the uncountable galaxies of the universe. The AC has solved the problem of releasing the mind from the body, and human minds are free to explore the vastness of millions of galaxies, with their bodies savely stored on some long forgotten planet. Two minds accidentally meet each other in outer space, and casually wonder where among the uncountable galaxies humans originated. The AC, which is now so large that most of it has to be housed in hyperspace, responds by instantly transporting them to an obscure galaxy. They are disappointed. The galaxy is so ordinary, like millions of other galaxies, and the original star has long since died. The two minds become anxious because billions of stars in the heavens are slowly meeting the same fate. The two minds ask, can the death of the universe itself be avoided? From hyperspace, the AC responds: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

Billions of years into the future, humanity consists of a trillion, trillion, trillion immortal bodies, each cared for by automatons. Humanity's collective mind, which is free to roam anywhere in the universe at will, eventually fuses into a single mind, which in turn fuses with the AC itself. It no longer makes sense to ask what the AC is made of, or where in hyperspace it really is. &quot;The universe is dying,&quot; thinks Man, collectively. One by one, as the stars and galaxies cease to generate energy, temperatures throughout the universe approach absolute zero. Man desperately asks if the cold and darkness slowly engulfing the galaxies mean its eventual death. From hyperspace, the AC answers: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

When Man asks the AC to collect the necessary data, it responds: I WILL DO SO. I HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS. MY PREDECESSORS HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION MANY TIMES. ALL THE DATA I HAVE REMAINS INSUFFICIENT.

A timeless interval passes, and the universe has finally reached its ultimate death. From hyperspace, the AC spends an eternity collecting data and contemplating the final question. At last, the AC discovers the solution, even though there is no longer anyone to give the answer. The AC carefully formulates a program, and then begins the process of reversing Chaos. It collects cold, interstellar gas, brings together the dead stars, until a gigantic ball is created.

Then, when its labors are done, from hyperspace the AC thunders:
LET THERE BE LIGHT!
And there was light....
And on the seventh day, He rested.

 

[johnjohn320]

We'll be looooong dead.

 

[GoldenBear]

Even if we destroy our environment we'll find a way, technology wise, to fix it.

 

[raven82]

sounds like someone just saw A.I.

 

[Aves]

I don't think we could even begin to theorize what life will be like 100,000 years from now. Assuming everything goes smoothly and we don't blow ourselves back to the stone age, or earlier, technology could take turns and evolve in ways we don't even understand.

 

[pen^2]

long before 100,000 years the third impact will occur and we wouldnt have to worry a thing about technology any longer

 

[CuriousAndy]

<< sounds like someone just saw A.I. >>



I refuse to see that movie.. Just saw The Fast and the Furious yesterday.. it was eh..

~mOo

 

[Killbat]

To go off on a slight tangent:
I think natural human evolution is dead. Medical technology and social rules have all but totally phux0red the whole concept of natural selection. Human procreation has separated from natural genetics. Humans don't mate because they're attracted to natural patterns or colors anymore. Humans mate because of &quot;love&quot;, because of money, or because of fake breasts. At the rate genetics technology is advancing, DNA tweaking will totally take over long before any major evolution occurs. The future of the human race on a genetic level is on longer in the hands of natural chaos, it's in the hands of humans themselves. Uh oh.

 

[Moonbeam]

According to Moore's law and guys like Kurzweil computers will be as intelligent as us by 2010 and in another 10yr so far ahead of us that they will need control to manage the complexity.

 

[bugsysiegel]

I suspect humans will die out withing 75 years, not long after fossil fuels run out. Just my thoughts though.

 

[yobarman]

play some Sid Mier's Alpha Centuari

 

[Killbat]

&quot;I suspect humans will die out withing 75 years, not long after fossil fuels run out.&quot;

You don't honestly believe that humans will die out because fossil fuels are used up, do you?
We got along quite well before we found them.

 

[CuriousAndy]

play some Sid Mier's Alpha Centuari

Or StarCraft..

Where we, humans(Terrans) advance so far to almost evolve as a psionic being (Ghost units are prototypes) to reach the level of Protoss..

<--avid StarCraft fan

 

[JRKIO]

Reminds me of Conan O'Brian. In the year two thoussssssssand.

 

[CuriousAndy]

<< Reminds me of Conan O'Brian. In the year two thoussssssssand. >>



That thing got SO PLAYED OUT when David Duchovney was guest-starred..

So dry.. disturbingly not funny..

~mOo