Anno 3k prediction game

[oskar]

Post your year 3000 predictions. The person to get the most right wins!
Here are mine:

• The first child to live to 1000 is born.

• Sentient robots are getting increcingly annoyed with 'I am your god' - jokes

• The hubble space telescope is moved from the legrange point to make way for an exclusive hotel and spa.

• Flying cars are not convenient.

• Jews and Muslims fight over cold water flats on the west bank.

• Kids think dinosaur parks are boring.

• Octo-man, who had all four limbs replaced with suction cups is a talk show sensation.

• Genetically engineered monster theme park operates without incidents.

[BankItDrew]

• Flying cars are still a dream and everyone always says "why haven't flying cars been invented yet?"
• ...Because teleportation has become the norm.
• Over-population begins to rear its ugly head in the form of scarce resources world-wide.

I have so many other thoughts about what would be positive evolutionary steps in our species but I'm so skeptical. I'm pessimistic about the future and I think it's because I listen to too much Art Bell and Alex Jones.

[Savy]

[LIST][*]Flying cars are still a dream and everyone always says "why haven't flying cars been invented yet?"

What's a plane?

[Galapogos]

You wouldn't download a plane would you?

[oskar]

• You would download a plane.

[!Luck]

* People still post inane comments on forums

[wufwugy]

Year 3000?

Sentient immortality. Humans have long since lost what makes them homo sapiens. Life is either fully mechanized or digitized, or people live in virtual worlds. The concept of the individual may be dead

Post-scarcity has long since been achieved though some form of replicator, perhaps quantum. If you die, your consciousness can just be reuploaded. Unlimited restore points

Consciousness itself may just be a network of perpetual digital sensations

[oskar]

nice one
even tho I think you're getting ahead of yourself here. Those are more like anno 5000 predictions. The problems I have with 'uploading yourself' are: how would you know which one you are, and how do you get rid of the gunk?

[wufwugy]

nice one
even tho I think you're getting ahead of yourself here. Those are more like anno 5000 predictions. The problems I have with 'uploading yourself' are: how would you know which one you are, and how do you get rid of the gunk?

No idea. But it's year 3000. I think I'm conservative here. Technology increases exponentially. Check out how far we've gotten in just 200 years since the Industrial Revolution. Multiply that by like a 100 and we'll be there in 2200. Multiply by a 1000 for 2250. Multiply by 1,000,000 for 2400. Some shit like that

I think it is probable the developed world achieves post-scarcity and disease/aging eradication by 2150, possibly earlier. Today, medical advancements are at a quicker pace than aging, and it is possible that the youth today will no longer die from aging causes. Ray Kurzweil thinks it will be sooner, and that the first person to live to 150 is 50 today.

As to how we would know "which one you are", how do we even know which one we are now? The lines are a little fuzzy, but it could probably be thought of like video games with save points. The old school consoles would take a while to save and only when you went to a certain spot and pressed certain buttons, but over time with the newer gens, saves became more automatic and frequent. Now some games save after every decision or shutdown or whatever. We could treat our consciousness just like we do this, where if you die, the mainframe is alerted and you're rebooted to your most recent or most appropriate checkpoint based on a variety of factors.

But even then this likely won't happen. It's too clunky. Before this ever became a thing our consciousnesses will likely exist in virtual realities instead of the real one. We're already in the primitive stages of this (internet is virtual), and over time we will gradually merge. It won't be some big event, but there will be steps along the way. This also means it will be more of a collective consciousness thing

[Chelle]

wall-e.

[oskar]

I've been thinking about that, and I think the hole in your story is that we are not in one of those simulations. If your assumption is true and sentience to cyberspace is a one way road on the evolutionary ladder, then it must be statistically infinitely more likely for a sentient mind to be inside a simulation. Am I really to believe that we are the ..01 percentile that starts it all? I don't think so.

And no, we are not inside a simulation. Not one that's built for us anyway. This is not very good. I know people pay real money for Eurotruck Simulator on Steam, but we are talking Holocaust Simulator here. 'Not good' is an understatement.

[wufwugy]

Simulation is irrelevant because it's indistinguishable from non-simulation. If we are in a simulation of a greater being, earthly problems are like if you have a giant field of corn and one of them rots. In the simulation of your cultivation, you pay no mind to it

Besides, whose to say the Universe isn't a cell in the body of trillions of cells in a world of trillions of other bodies with trillions of universe-cells? Human consciousness merging with cyberspace isn't even a blip, and it would last only as long as the one universe does, and that universe only lasts as long as length is measurable within itself

[!Luck]

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[givememyleg]

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good stuff. makes me wish i could write.