From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 23:16:34 MDT
Lee noted:
<<Well, that's been the pattern so far. In each century our ideas have
changed so much that the most farsighted dreams of the preceding
century seem lame. So I suppose that "converting every bit of matter
in the universe to more compute power" may suffer the same fate. Somehow.
Lee >>
My guess is that there may come new discoveries about the nature of the
quintessence of space itself. This proposed "discovery" will not come soon,
but its a hunch the in the nature of things, humanity and its descendants
will finally see the forest for the trees. Domains with space-time is more
properly, what I suspect. Rough guess on when such a discovery will occur? I
will say 400 years from last Tuesday, and then another 1000 years before
there is the tech to interact/sail/travel.
More likely, it will be tens of thousands of years before any such activity
will happen. But us science fiction nuts always dream techno progress is
always smooth and easily obtained (aka Star Trek universe). I tend to side
with A.C. Clarke and consider future tech as ass-busting hard to achieve, but
still fascinating when it happens. Finally, mining the data inherent at the
Planck level (I am assuming all data bleeds down into the planck cells) may
eclipse the need and desire for a Tipler-esque Omega Point. Again, the tech
for this would seem to be likely to be discovered and utilized some tens of
billions of years hence, rather than in the Spok epoch.
See what people are capable of when we hand-wave and blather :-) ?
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