From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Apr 26 2003 - 15:17:16 MDT
Anders Sandburg observed:
<<
Hmm, that implies that there are patterns of arbitrary size to
have knowledge about. If you have a finite past lightcone (= the
things you can know about) then the amount of knowledge is bounded
(but increasing).>>
It would be wondrous indeed, if it was theoretically possible to revover,
even a large part of the data from a light cone!
<<<I
Shipping the bit requires energy to accelerate it,
and if you want it to go interstellar distances fast that means
energy on the order of the rest mass. So it is easier to put
information into matter locally than transmit it elsewhere. Which
bodes ill for the interlibrary loans of the postsingularity world. >>
I wonder if at some point, centuries from now, X crosses Y and advances in
computing, that we see today, have run aground on Moore's Law, and humanity
or what we have evolved into, views fast transportation, as the way forward?
It may be then that the attraction of the great emptiness, called the
Universe becomes more tempting, rather then daunting. The future of the sun
and the solar system becomes disconcerting to our descendants; and they start
getting the survival meme of migration for safety. The economics of such an
attempt may also coincide with advances in space tech, since economics is in
fact, not the science of scarcity of goods and services, but the perception
of such a scarcity. Once freed from the perception that space travel is
expensive, or that the return is not worth the expense, post humanity might
then take wings, of an interstellar variety.
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