---Dan Fabulich <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Lady D'Los wrote:
> >Two simple questions which I feel will tickle your brain cells...
> >Timetravel, a Transhuman possability, or just a daydream? Would it
be a
> >good thing, or disastrous?
Actually, I believe that a transhumanist future might have no need at all for backward time travel, because one would have little to learn from primitive pre-singularity humans. I think that it would be neither good nor bad.
> Into the future? Absolutely. Backwards? Almost certainly not.
>
> Consider: if we were develop backwards time travel at some point in
the
> future, then someone could have gone back in time to some point before
> today. If time travel will be discovered, then it has already
happened.
>
> Thus, due to the very nature of time travel, if it hasn't happened
already,
> we can safely assume that it never will.
This is assuming much about a technological/biological future that is very difficult to predict and will become virtually impossible to predict as the singularity approaches and passes. Isn't that saying something along the lines of since we've never seen something it must not be. There is no other life in the universe because they have never bothered to come tell us that they are there.
Mike