I really enjoyed this little video, just 7 minutes or so, and highly recommend that you check it out.
Not that I literally believe that beings from the future are going to travel into the past to create the universe we know now. But I really liked the part where they said “Once we achieve the singularity, technology will advance faster than we can think and we will be able to create worlds in an instant. All of our dreams will come true, but so will our nightmares. The future will be a battle of ideas.”
Choose Your Future
Although total singularity may be several generations away (there are people on Earth who have never used a phone, much less a computer, and there are many who think the singularity is a bad idea, and they might be right – like nuclear power, it could lead to our total destruction. It will definitely lead to us becoming something other than human) we are clearly heading down that road and many aspects of it are with us today.
Technology IS advancing faster than we can think. I am typing this at 11:47 p.m. Central European Time, Greenwich +1, there are undoubtedly some night owls still up at CERN, and scientists across North America are in the middle of their day while in Japan some obsessed engineer is having a morning coffee while he converses with a robot and having a major breakthrough, and everything everybody discovers everywhere will be fed back into the loop, so there’s no way we wee mortals can keep up.
Creating worlds in an instant? Well, we do it in games, writers do it in their books, but actual, physical changes take actual, physical time and there are only so many physical worlds close enough for us to experiment with and they all have certain resource limitations. So, I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration but, metaphorically, yeah, we’re already there.
It definitely will, though, come down to a battle of ideas and that battle has already begun. The trick will be sorting out the good ideas from the bad ideas, the beautiful visions of a peaceful future where there are lots of tall forests and blooming gardens and clean rivers and lakes filled with fish and gleaming cities and high speed transportation and peace and freedom and love from the totalitarian dystopias of prison planets and robot armies shooting death rays from their eyes.
It might not be that easy. A quick look at the politics of the world today is enough to prove there are some people who really, really want a shitty world.
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