RE: Escaping The Matrix - Should We Even Care?
The we'll have to worry about the nascent Chimpanzee Empire, and the insectoid races trying to invade us XS
Oh... I really hope I'm alive long enough for us to begin colonizing other worlds. Even better if I'm still here when we can upload our minds !
True. Maybe we'll still have economics though, but linked to extreme luxury products, like your own private spacebase, colony shuttle and deeds to a planet, etc...
Everything food, shelter, and "basic" tech (replicators of lots of materials, etc...) would be free, and one could potentially fabricate one's own space station. It'd just take a lot of time. While one could barter/buy a station off someone else.
There are a lot of possibilities.
Though once we begin colonizing other worlds, if our communications aren't real time or we lose track of a colony or two, we're going to end up with different societies living light years apart evolving in different directions...
Oh... the possibilities XS
I have a feeling the latter will happen way before the former. We already have a chip that can enable new memories to be formed; whereas we haven't managed to colonise our nearest planets.
I think 2022 will be an interesting year, and from that point on of course. I just want to be able to upload my mind, and then tell a mind, to wake me when something, interesting happens :-)
Cg
True. But methinks that might be related to most of the world giving up on space travel completely due to cost and... well... I have no idea why else they'd just forget everything about space...
Seriously, why don't we have space stations everywhere already XS
I don't think we'll give up; the reason why we don't have them everywhere already is simply down to money.
NASA and Elon Musk, are working on cheaper propulsion systems, and simply cheaper ways to get us out of our own gravity well.
On a million lbs rocket, 900,000 lbs of it is fuel, most of the rest of the weight is taken up by the material used to build it. Leaving less than 0.1% for payload, which of course has to include, human cargo, oxygen, and water.
We need plasma, electromagnetic, laser, or whatever, something to take us beyond rocket fuel, distilled from crude oil and ethanol.
Cg
Too true.
Here's to the future !
raises cup of hot cocoa
course, now we're working on it again...
Let it be a race. Mind upload VS Space Travel.
I seem to remember there's "talk" between anthropologists that Chimpanzee's might "technically" be entering their equivalent of the Stone Age.
Pretty sure it's still a fringe theory, but they HAVE been observed using stone tools, so it's not too far a stretch.