Science fans: Here's a speculative timeline of what happens in the future to humanity.

[Malik]

All that in 280 years from now?

They can't even find a cure for baldness after how many years of research?

280 years ago was 1734. Imagine telling people in 1734 what life is like in 2014.

 

[Bomberman]

I can see it happening pretty easily. There's been lots of advances in the 20th century alone.

280 years ago was 1734. Imagine telling people in 1734 what life is like in 2014.

The 1700's they already had an idea of what electricity was.

That article just seemed too ambitious. Just think about what they're saying: That you'll be able to nearly control every atom in your body 300 years from now. That you'd essentially be able to twist your brain inside out, then be able to fit it back electron by electron with no consequences.

The effects of quantum tunneling were first observed 87 years ago, and we still don't know the reason why it happens. But that article is saying we'll be able to tunnel all of our electrons to another spot, and all in the exact same orientation they were in, again with no consequences in 300 years.

Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson during a reddit session:

Question:What seemingly far-fetched aspect of science fiction do you think humans will reach first? (For example: Time Travel, lightsabers, invisibility, etc.)

neiltyson: None of it. Not even the costumes.

300 years seems like a long time, but the jump the article is talking about 300 years from now is exponentially more radical than the jump from 300 years ago, even taking into account technology we're working with now.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

What do you kats know about that terraforming? There is actually a very nice sequence of this in the original Total Recall from 1990

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

All that in 280 years from now?

They can't even find a cure for baldness after how many years of research?

Do you realize where the world was like 150 years ago?

 

[Poitier]

Posthumanism is the dumbest thing ever.

 

[Malik]

The 1700's they already had an idea of what electricity was.

That article just seemed too ambitious. Just think about what they're saying: That you'll be able to nearly control every atom in your body 300 years from now. That you'd essentially be able to twist your brain inside out, then be able to fit it back atom by atom with no consequences.

Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson during a reddit session:

100 years ago we didn't have internet, cell phones, computers, airplanes, automobiles, radio, television, antibiotics, etc. That's just 100 years. We talking about 300. That puts you in the 17th, 18th century. Imagine trying to explain the concept of online banking to somebody during the Renaissance


The rate of technology increases with time. There will be more technological advancement in the next century than in the last 2 millennia. 300 years from now the world will look like a sci-fi flick....they would have made things that would have us just as dumbfounded. Those predictions aren't that crazy. Especially if that Singularity thing happens

 

[Blackout]

I wonder what the article says about black peoples fate.

 

[Bomberman]

100 years ago we didn't have internet, cell phones, computers, airplanes, automobiles, radio, television, antibiotics, etc. That's just 100 years. We talking about 300. That puts you in the 17th, 18th century. Imagine trying to explain the concept of online banking to somebody during the Renaissance


The rate of technology increases with time. There will be more technological advancement in the next century than in the last 2 millennia. 300 years from now the world will look like a sci-fi flick....they would have made things that would have us just as dumbfounded. Those predictions aren't that crazy. Especially if that Singularity thing happens

Breh, some of the stuff you listed was in development 100 years ago where they could imagine what they would be able to accomplish in the near future. While some of the other things you mentioned existed over 100 years ago flat out. Those are bold predictions for 300 years, which isn't really a long time in the grand scheme of things. If evolution from a simple cell started some 2,000 million years ago, you're saying in 300 years from where we are now we'll be able to fully control parts of our body smaller than a single cell?

Here's one of the best living physicists, a noble prize winner who was also one of Richard Feynman's colleagues at Caltech. Fast forward to the question asked at 59:20.



What theoretical physicists discover today isn't so easily applicable, and very seldom is it applicable right away. While some things aren't even applicable. This is coming from someone who firmly believes the ceiling today, is the next generation's floor. But some things just can't be done, well, because nature won't allow it to be.


I could understand and remain less skeptical about what they're saying will happen to the cosmos and the universe. But that stuff about the specific capabilities for the human body, especially when they said all that within 300 years. I guess the only time will tell.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

I wonder what the article says about black peoples fate.

The world will be in control of a black woman


Oh wait that already happened.

Guess history will just repeat itself

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

The 1700's they already had an idea of what electricity was.

That article just seemed too ambitious. Just think about what they're saying: That you'll be able to nearly control every atom in your body 300 years from now. That you'd essentially be able to twist your brain inside out, then be able to fit it back electron by electron with no consequences.

The effects of quantum tunneling were first observed 87 years ago, and we still don't know the reason why it happens. But that article is saying we'll be able to tunnel all of our electrons to another spot, and all in the exact same orientation they were in, again with no consequences in 300 years.

Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson during a reddit session:



300 years seems like a long time, but the jump the article is talking about 300 years from now is exponentially more radical than the jump from 300 years ago, even taking into account technology we're working with now.

Isn't technology progressing at an exponentially fast level?

 

[Wild self]

100 years ago we didn't have internet, cell phones, computers, airplanes, automobiles, radio, television, antibiotics, etc. That's just 100 years. We talking about 300. That puts you in the 17th, 18th century. Imagine trying to explain the concept of online banking to somebody during the Renaissance


The rate of technology increases with time. There will be more technological advancement in the next century than in the last 2 millennia. 300 years from now the world will look like a sci-fi flick....they would have made things that would have us just as dumbfounded. Those predictions aren't that crazy. Especially if that Singularity thing happens

In the next 300 years, everything will be 100% artificial.

 

[Bomberman]

Isn't technology progressing at an exponentially fast level?

It is. I should have said that last part a little more specific. Even as fast as technology progresses, to reach that point in 300 years is going to be tough. Not only does that require making leaps in physics, but in biology, computer science, chemistry, engineering, etc. as well. Like that other video I posted, it can take a long time for us to make use of our discoveries. It's been 50+ years since the first laser, and 40 years before that the discovery of what makes a laser work was found.

To be where that article says we would be in 300 years it'd have to progress faster. In other words x^2 still grows slower than x^4.

I'm not knocking your article, thought it was interesting. Especially the part about the cosmos, I actually have trust in most astrophysicist predictions in that regard. However, what I don't trust is predictions from scientists about where we'd be as a species. I don't know how many times I've heard the cure for such and such disease or ailment will be found in x amount of years, but it's been y amount of years since (where y > x), and still nothing. Sometimes they'll even say in another x amount of years from now. Unless I'm listening to it coming out of the mouth of one of the greats of our time (not just TV scientists), who tend to be more controlled with their predictions, I take it with a grain of salt.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

It's just somebody's fantasy mane....I doubt most of this stuff happens...I just read this lol

Year 2160

The world's first bicentenarians

Certain people who were born in the 1960s are still alive and well in today's world. Life expectancy had been increasing at a rate of 0.2 years, per year, at the turn of the 21st century. This incremental progress meant that by the time they were 80, these people could expect to live an additional decade on top of their original lifespan.

However, the rate of increase itself had been accelerating, due to major breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare, combined with better education and lifestyle choices. This created a "stepping stone", allowing people to buy time for the treatments available later in the century – which included being able to halt the aging process altogether.*

 

[Wild self]

It's just somebody's fantasy mane....I doubt most of this stuff happens...I just read this lol

Year 2160

The world's first bicentenarians

Certain people who were born in the 1960s are still alive and well in today's world. Life expectancy had been increasing at a rate of 0.2 years, per year, at the turn of the 21st century. This incremental progress meant that by the time they were 80, these people could expect to live an additional decade on top of their original lifespan.

However, the rate of increase itself had been accelerating, due to major breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare, combined with better education and lifestyle choices. This created a "stepping stone", allowing people to buy time for the treatments available later in the century – which included being able to halt the aging process altogether.*

That sounds like Jay-Z all day

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

That sounds like Jay-Z all day

@ Jay-Z making it to 200 years old