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http://www.futuretimeline.net/

Welcome to the future! Here you will find a speculative timeline of future history. Part fact and part fiction, the timeline is based on detailed research that includes analysis of current trends, projected long-term environmental changes, known advances in computing such as Moore's Law, the latest scientific advances, and the evolving geopolitical landscape. Where possible, references have been provided to support the predictions. FutureTimeline.net is intended to be an ongoing, collaborative project that is open for discussion - we welcome ideas from scientists, futurists, inventors, writers and anyone else interested in the future of our world
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While searching for more info on the subject of the technological singularity I found this site.

While the predictions should be taken with a pinch of salt, it is a very interesting read. I found particularly interesting the predictions for the remainder of the 21'st century. Going from seemingly mundane technological advances to extraordinary ones in just a few dacedes.

A lot of the speculations are influenced by Ray Kurzweil's ideas.


Your thoughts?
 
Why does everything that's awesome happen after I'm dead?
 
15357 said:
Why does everything that's awesome happen after I'm dead?
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You didn't actually read the whole thing through did you? They say even people that were born as far back as the 1960's through the aid of technology can live long enough to benefit from all of this. So if even some of these things come true, our generation just might live forever.
 
|2030-39 USA is declining as a world power, here comes NZ ;)
 
Remus said:
You didn't actually read the whole thing through did you? They say even people that were born as far back as the 1960's through the aid of technology can live long enough to benefit from all of this. So if even some of these things come true, our generation just might live forever.
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Ok, that's cool.


Now all we need is some alien homeworlds to eradicate.
 
Interesting read, but no less speculative than Star Trek.
 
The Monkey said:
Interesting read, but no less speculative than Star Trek.
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True.

I personally like to think that only the good predictions will come true, and that we can avoid the bad ones. Like the "90% of the world's species dieing" prediction...

Those predictions summed up into one sentence: It gets worse before it gets better.
 
Aye seems to be mostly wishful thinking
 
Bio-cameras matching human eye resolution.

Advances in biotech and sensor technology have enabled the development of tiny "bio-cameras".* These devices can be implanted like contact lenses, and are capable of taking photos with hundreds of millions of pixels' worth of information: equal to the resolution of the human eye itself.*

For now, they are a luxury item used only by the rich - or in specialist roles such as covert spying operations. However, within a few years they will begin entering mainstream use. Future versions will enable the capture of moving video and audio, in addition to static photos.
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This has me very interested. Cool website.
 
Damn, just reading past the 10k era was fascinating.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
What a great end.
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You mean the end of the Universe?

Well I see two possibilities:
1 We accept our fate and die with the Universe.
2 We stubbornly persist until we find a way to open a gateway to a parallel universe and escape.

Which sounds more like humanity?
Yeah I thought so...
 
3. Our abilities become infinite and humanity becomes a collective God, reverses the system entropy, and let there be light.
 
It's not completely impossible that we could somehow in the far future fiddle with the fabric of the universe and prevent its end.
 
Remus said:
You mean the end of the Universe?

Well I see two possibilities:
1 We accept our fate and die with the Universe.
2 We stubbornly persist until we find a way to open a gateway to a parallel universe and escape.

Which sounds more like humanity?
Yeah I thought so...
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The former, of course. But with even this universe's resources I'm sure we'd be able to recreate entire stars.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
recreate entire stars.
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What good would that do? It would only postpone the inevitable.


Sure we could hypothetically escape, and explore an infinity of universes. But I just had a terrible thought, what if the multiverse also has a finite lifespan...

This is an idea I haven't seen brought up in any documentary discussing M theory.

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Mr Stabby said:
Mankind has its priorities right.
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Oh LOL.
 
By the end of the universe, we may have found a way to reverse Entropy.

Read a short story on that topic. It was good.
 
Druckles said:
By the end of the universe, we may have found a way to reverse Entropy.

Read a short story on that topic. It was good.
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Did it have a supercomputer in it? Because I read that too.
 
quantum teleportation was never really teleportation. But just generating particlesin entangled state for processing information.

btw, a quantum metastablility event will kill us all before the thermal hell come.
 
It doesn't matter who controls it. The spice must flow.
 
So, how exactly can a prediction be "part fact"?
 
Bad^Hat said:
So, how exactly can a prediction be "part fact"?
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Their near future predictions are based on current technological developments. And the long term predictions like the sun turning into a red giant are based on real scientific data. So yeah part fact and part fiction and speculation.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
Not if we're far away enough (from the rapist black holes) with enough resources to last through it.
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Last through it? *facepalm* It's the mother****ing end of the Universe there is no lasting through it. Any artificial stars that we would create would eventually run out of fuel and go nova/turn into red giants... And we would be back at square one, dieing in the endless darkness of space.
 
I think that depends on what it takes to create the stars, how much of it we have, and when the black holes burn themselves out.
 
As far as the end of the universe as we know it... a lot of it is still in theory. No one knows exactly what's going to be going down trillions of years in the future. Potentially, if we're still aorund... after that much time and the inevitable devotion to the sciences, we'd potentially be able to see a new universe or travel to a younger hotter (sexier) universe in the multiverse. Of course that's all just theory too... good thing we have a while to find out. Chances are though - we'll either be wiped out from some other radom event or have stopped caring about self perpetuation long before that point.
 
So its going to take another 20,000 years to make all the radiation around Chernobyl safe?

That's pretty mind blowing
 
15357 said:
Did it have a supercomputer in it? Because I read that too.
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God said: "Cancel program GENESIS". The universe ceased to exist.
-Arthur C. Clarke

Chances are though - we'll either be wiped out from some other radom event or have stopped caring about self perpetuation long before that point.
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This, pretty much. I mean, by that point we'll have existed for, you know, an unfathomable amount of time anyway. It is entirely pointless in speculating on our abilities, our state of existence or almost anything at all at that point. If human kind survives to the end of the universe, that would make our current history here on Earth akin to comparing the size of the moon to that of a single molecule.
 
simonjedi said:
So its going to take another 20,000 years to make all the radiation around Chernobyl safe?

That's pretty mind blowing
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Radiation everywhere in this bitch.

It'll blow your ****in' mind.
 
25,2525 AD - Backwards time machine still won't have arrived.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
I think that depends on what it takes to create the stars, how much of it we have, and when the black holes burn themselves out.
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Imagine you are in a starship floating amid the dark space. As time goes by, Nuclei disintegrate spontaneously. Each proton in the ship decay one by one. The ship is not running out of ordinary material and energy. It is running out of the fundermental building block of matter itself. No matter what you build, they disintegrate slowly, without any process to slow it down.

The ship loses its mass and size day by day. People in the ship will treasure each cosmic proton they come across in the space. However, the gathering of cosmic protons will never be quick enough to catch up with the decay as the ship come across less proton day after day. Soon, the ship reduced to half of its mass, so as the people. Then, one quater. Then one eigth... Until nothing left in the space but I bunch of chaotic neutrinos, photons; and electron-positron pairs which will ultimate self-annihilate, if they are close enough for posible annihilation. They will now be any mark on the existence of the ship. There will not be any record for the ever existed glorious and posperous intelligent races, i.e. human and the like. Entrop reaches the ultimate maximum and stationary value. No imformation exists and no interaction can be done.

It is inevitable.



And I am yet to mention what dark energy is taking us to: the Big Rip. :p
 
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