I just went on this huge, complicated rant on where I see myself in fifteen years. My response was pretty different, compared to the rest. For one thing, it's about a page long. For another, It starts by saying that I see myself on Mars.
I really expect the near future to be as radically different from now as now is radically different from 1905. I expect aging to be cured within my lifetime, all forms of illness and disease cured or edited out of the human genetic code. I expect the development of free and unlimited energy sources, commercial teleportation, and solar colonization on a wide scale. I expect the creation of new realities as computers become sophisticated enough to create simluations of reality that do not differ from our reality in any significant way. I expect all this in my lifetime. The death of an economic system based on anything resembling money can't be more than a few dozen years away. Once we get the kinks worked out of the robots and the nanonics, and get cold fusion up and running, we can build self replicating machines that will make pretty much all physical labor useless, except for recreation purposes.
I don't know what everyone will do with their time at that point, but I think it will happen. I don't know. I hope it happens. When I was growing up all my favorite authors predicated a marvellously high tech civilization of unimaginable wonders to come about around 2000, and for the most part they were right. Civilization, for all it's faults, is nearly unbelievable some days. But in a lot of ways it's still the same mundane crawl it has always been.
I' think I'm going to really enjoy the next fifty or onehundred years, because mark me, I'm going to live to be about onehundred and fifty even if they don't conclusively cure aging.
I really expect the near future to be as radically different from now as now is radically different from 1905. I expect aging to be cured within my lifetime, all forms of illness and disease cured or edited out of the human genetic code. I expect the development of free and unlimited energy sources, commercial teleportation, and solar colonization on a wide scale. I expect the creation of new realities as computers become sophisticated enough to create simluations of reality that do not differ from our reality in any significant way. I expect all this in my lifetime. The death of an economic system based on anything resembling money can't be more than a few dozen years away. Once we get the kinks worked out of the robots and the nanonics, and get cold fusion up and running, we can build self replicating machines that will make pretty much all physical labor useless, except for recreation purposes.
I don't know what everyone will do with their time at that point, but I think it will happen. I don't know. I hope it happens. When I was growing up all my favorite authors predicated a marvellously high tech civilization of unimaginable wonders to come about around 2000, and for the most part they were right. Civilization, for all it's faults, is nearly unbelievable some days. But in a lot of ways it's still the same mundane crawl it has always been.
I' think I'm going to really enjoy the next fifty or onehundred years, because mark me, I'm going to live to be about onehundred and fifty even if they don't conclusively cure aging.
My god, man. Do you do anything but write in your jounal?