How far into the future would you like to wake up?
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Say you had enough of the present and were given the option to be cryogenically frozen. How far into the future would you want to sleep?
Keep in mind the future could be like "Sleeper" where there's no pornography and sex is done in containers. Or it could be like "Idiocracy" and you're on a world full or bNers.
I would go 200 years. Long enough that everyone I don't like would be dead. The english language if still around wouldn't have changed much. And if there was a nuclear war, it would have passed and I would be in a world being rebuilt or everything was destroyed. And if everything was gone no point in living and the radiation will kill me.
Keep in mind the future could be like "Sleeper" where there's no pornography and sex is done in containers. Or it could be like "Idiocracy" and you're on a world full or bNers.
I would go 200 years. Long enough that everyone I don't like would be dead. The english language if still around wouldn't have changed much. And if there was a nuclear war, it would have passed and I would be in a world being rebuilt or everything was destroyed. And if everything was gone no point in living and the radiation will kill me.
right after the singularity happens.
I have such little faith in the future that I'm not sure I really want much of it. Can we bump me back a few million years?
5,000 years. Because I'm curious about the far future :)
Next Friday. This present may suck, but it sucks in ways that I can handle. I don't have much faith in humanity making the world a better place in the future.
I'd rather be able to go back 1 year than go forward any number of years.
But if I had to pick a number to go forward, I'd say 100. Long enough for things to have changed significantly, but not so far that I would be totally disconnected from now.
But if I had to pick a number to go forward, I'd say 100. Long enough for things to have changed significantly, but not so far that I would be totally disconnected from now.
The future? You're funny.
Since the earth is only about 6000 years old, I say 6000 more years.
nately's whore: I'd rather be able to go back 1 year than go forward any number of years.
But if I had to pick a number to go forward, I'd say 100. Long enough for things to have changed significantly, but not so far that I would be totally disconnected from now.
If the growth of technology and population continue to grow at the same exponential rate as today, 100 years will be unrecognizable. Think about how your grandparents dealt with changes that they were alive to experience, then imagine being plopped in the middle of that with no buildup at all. Hell, I think back that I was in elementary school only 30 years after the end of WWII, and that seemed like a whole different world then.
But if I had to pick a number to go forward, I'd say 100. Long enough for things to have changed significantly, but not so far that I would be totally disconnected from now.
If the growth of technology and population continue to grow at the same exponential rate as today, 100 years will be unrecognizable. Think about how your grandparents dealt with changes that they were alive to experience, then imagine being plopped in the middle of that with no buildup at all. Hell, I think back that I was in elementary school only 30 years after the end of WWII, and that seemed like a whole different world then.
I'd like to see how bN ends. So wake me up.
I'd like to wake up about 18 hours from now. Then I'd be nice and rested for the weekend.
bucket of truth: right after the singularity happens.
This.
Leaving the human condition in the dust is the main thing to look forward to now. Well, that and the release of Mass Effect 3.
This.
Leaving the human condition in the dust is the main thing to look forward to now. Well, that and the release of Mass Effect 3.
Sometime after the next Ice Age.
I'm going to say I don't want to go into the future because realistically it would suck. I'm not talking about the politics or environment, but just the logistics of it. If you read Stephen King's The Dead Zone, Johnny is in a coma for seven years or so and it's disorienting to him and that's only a few years. Imagine twenty years, or fifty, especially with technological change happening the way it is now. All you need to do to get an idea of this is just read one of those "today's college grads don't remember..." articles that come out every year. It's not so bad for us because we're living through the changes, but imagine having to have all that hit you at once. Now imagine 100 years of it. You'd be an anachronism at best.
If things go well people will be a helluva lot smarter, physically more attractive and healthy and every last one of us will be like a dumb slob compared to future folk.
So I'll just stay right here and now.
So I'll just stay right here and now.
swingingjohnson: people will be a helluva lot smarter, physically more attractive and healthy
Not if the Duggars have anything to do with it...
Not if the Duggars have anything to do with it...
I choose to wake up a microsecond past the heat death of the rest of the universe. My status as the only existing instantiation of Order will give me godlike power with which I will create energy ex nihilo and shape it into a new cosmos exactly identical to this one at this moment except I didn't just roll my computer chair over my headphones.
Because goddamnit now I have to go buy another pair.
Because goddamnit now I have to go buy another pair.
jeff73: I choose to wake up a microsecond past the heat death of the rest of the universe. My status as the only existing instantiation of Order will give me godlike power with which I will create energy ex nihilo and shape it into a new cosmos exactly identical to this one at this moment except I didn't just roll my computer chair over my headphones.
xxplosiv's alt?
xxplosiv's alt?
jeff73: I choose to wake up a microsecond past the heat death of the rest of the universe. My status as the only existing instantiation of Order will give me godlike power with which I will create energy ex nihilo and shape it into a new cosmos exactly identical to this one at this moment except I didn't just roll my computer chair over my headphones.
Because goddamnit now I have to go buy another pair.
This already happened but I woke up a microsecond before you and put your headphones next to your chair wheel. Don't make me do this again. Oh and the platypus? I was really bored about 20 million years ago.
Because goddamnit now I have to go buy another pair.
This already happened but I woke up a microsecond before you and put your headphones next to your chair wheel. Don't make me do this again. Oh and the platypus? I was really bored about 20 million years ago.
Tough choice. I want a lot of technical advancemaent while still being able to speak my language.
czarangelus: Tough choice. I want a lot of technical advancemaent while still being able to speak my language.
I could re-learn. I would, however, require matter transporters, FTL travel, and material synthesizers.
\Oh yeah, technology allowing construction of a Dyson Sphere goes without saying.
I could re-learn. I would, however, require matter transporters, FTL travel, and material synthesizers.
\Oh yeah, technology allowing construction of a Dyson Sphere goes without saying.
cardinal puff: I could re-learn. I would, however, require matter transporters, FTL travel, and material synthesizers.
Oh yeah, technology allowing construction of a Dyson Sphere goes without saying.
Who needs a language when you have a holodeck?
Oh yeah, technology allowing construction of a Dyson Sphere goes without saying.
Who needs a language when you have a holodeck?
Shit, I'm white so I'm not really interested in seeing how badly we're going to pay how well we have it now.
I mean really, we aren't going to fall from #1 to #2.. we're going to get tied down and fucked hard for a long time
I mean really, we aren't going to fall from #1 to #2.. we're going to get tied down and fucked hard for a long time
baron muchhumpin: Shit, I'm white so I'm not really interested in seeing how badly we're going to pay how well we have it now.
I mean really, we aren't going to fall from #1 to #2.. we're going to get tied down and fucked hard for a long time
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I mean really, we aren't going to fall from #1 to #2.. we're going to get tied down and fucked hard for a long time
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Thank you in advance.
farkmeblind: I..wat? I'm sorry, but these sentiments are not allowed for the melanin-challenged. Please redact your statement and include a Rebel yell.
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It's Louis CK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
Thank you in advance.
It's Louis CK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY
vushtrriboy: I have such little faith in the future that I'm not sure I really want much of it. Can we bump me back a few million years?
Pessimists unite! *high five*
Pessimists unite! *high five*
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