Key West
Banned
No it's not about flying cars and typical sci-fi stuff. It's about human behavior.
Look at where we are. How do you explain how a computer works to someone in the medieval days? And that was mere 500 years ago. Now, let's look into the future... not 10, 50 or even 200 years, but 1000 years in the future. It is pretty much impossible to speculate.
Isn't it only a matter of time when a soft science like psychology becomes concrete?
Who you are today is a combination of your traits, upbringing, surroundings and life events. There is a quadrillion possibilities of who you are. But isn't it all sheer data? What if our science becomes so advanced and complex, we can calculate all that sheer data into a concrete map?
The calculation will incorporate your physiology, psychology, your surrounding, your interactions, past & recent events, even that slightly uncomfortable room temperature you're in. Crunching this gigantic near-infinite data, we can predict what your behavior will be in the next five minutes, tomorrow morning and next day? Predicting the future is no longer a spiritual crap, it becomes an educated scientific certainty.
They'll know the exact phrase you'll say by tomorrow lunch, how you choose to open the car door on the way home, who you'll call or not call, or don't call anyone at all. What about business implications? Everything has been calculated and they know weather that CEO will decide to merge or not...
When we think about the future, we narrow mindedly think about hollywood stuff- flying cars, space ships, robot helpers, teleportation, etc. But human science, it can be a scary stuff.
Look at where we are. How do you explain how a computer works to someone in the medieval days? And that was mere 500 years ago. Now, let's look into the future... not 10, 50 or even 200 years, but 1000 years in the future. It is pretty much impossible to speculate.
Isn't it only a matter of time when a soft science like psychology becomes concrete?
Who you are today is a combination of your traits, upbringing, surroundings and life events. There is a quadrillion possibilities of who you are. But isn't it all sheer data? What if our science becomes so advanced and complex, we can calculate all that sheer data into a concrete map?
The calculation will incorporate your physiology, psychology, your surrounding, your interactions, past & recent events, even that slightly uncomfortable room temperature you're in. Crunching this gigantic near-infinite data, we can predict what your behavior will be in the next five minutes, tomorrow morning and next day? Predicting the future is no longer a spiritual crap, it becomes an educated scientific certainty.
They'll know the exact phrase you'll say by tomorrow lunch, how you choose to open the car door on the way home, who you'll call or not call, or don't call anyone at all. What about business implications? Everything has been calculated and they know weather that CEO will decide to merge or not...
When we think about the future, we narrow mindedly think about hollywood stuff- flying cars, space ships, robot helpers, teleportation, etc. But human science, it can be a scary stuff.
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