Timeline of the far future. Mind=Blown

His dates are a little off but hes been spot on with a number of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil

wooooooooooooooow! I feel like I just drank a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster

Amazing (I'm not being sarcastic)

How does all this effect pub opening hours?

Any news on the crystaline entity?

That's very cool :cool:

I read that. All I could think of when they said Boltzmann brain was just this giant brain floating in space going, "Hey guys... Eh, is anyone there?"

pragmatic1 wrote: »

His dates are a little off but hes been spot on with a number of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil

2019

Devices that deliver sensations to the skin surface of their users (i.e.--tight body suits and gloves) are also sometimes used in virtual reality to complete the experience. "Virtual sex"--in which two people are able to have sex with each other through virtual reality, or in which a human can have sex with a "simulated" partner that only exists on a computer—becomes a reality.

Only 8 more years! :pac:

In the end... The last remaining black hole will evaporate.

From that point onwards the universe is composed only of photons, neutrinos, electrons and positrons - with no way of interacting with each other.

The universe will continue to expand forever... but is essentially dead.

darragh16 wrote: »

In the end... The last remaining black hole will evaporate.

From that point onwards the universe is composed only of photons, neutrinos, electrons and positrons - with no way of interacting with each other.

The universe will continue to expand forever... but is essentially dead.

This is how I understood it when I read it, but I can't even begin to imagine it.

Beyond 1 millinillion

:eek: I didn't even know that word existed.

Devices that deliver sensations to the skin surface of their users (i.e.--tight body suits and gloves) are also sometimes used in virtual reality to complete the experience. "Virtual sex"--in which two people are able to have sex with each other through virtual reality, or in which a human can have sex with a "simulated" partner that only exists on a computer—becomes a reality.

& how the fúck does that work?

NotExactly wrote: »

& how the fúck does that work?

Just as visual- and auditory virtual reality have come of age, haptic technology has fully matured and is completely convincing, yet requires the user to enter a V.R. booth. It is commonly used for computer sex and remote medical examinations. It is the preferred sexual medium since it is safe and enhances the experience.

My guess it that they'll probably retro-fit old obsolete phone boxes.

I get the feeling that somebody's been watching too many repeats of Demolition Man!

"3020: Liverpool win the premier league"

Result!

Turtyturd wrote: »

But does another Big Bang occur and the whole process begins over again? Human existence is a pre-scripted soap opera that runs and runs....my head is melted.

Yes, it's essentially the matrix "revolutions"

darragh16 wrote: »

In the end... The last remaining black hole will evaporate.

From that point onwards the universe is composed only of photons, neutrinos, electrons and positrons - with no way of interacting with each other.

The universe will continue to expand forever... but is essentially dead.

No we can go even further than those particles. The second law will eventually claim them too. From a holographic principle point of view we go on until we reach a maximum entropy(information) value for all matter/energy contained in the universe. Constrained by the planck units. Think of it as reality being a bubble that started under a type of tension. It will expand until all they tiniest parts that make up the bubble expand to their tension-less length. I mean it literally. Reality is the surface horizon of the bubble. The world around us is shaped statistically by the kinematics or rules that govern the planck-length interaction between these strings, particles whatever they are. Gravity, space-time become an emergent phenomenon as interactions propagate across the universal horizon at the speed of light, plack speed which ever you like.

The 3D world perceived is maybe an isomorphic projection from the horizon. But the geometry/kinematics governing reality exist only in the planck instants. Without the ability to record past configurations in memory perception of reality and time would disappear.