Anno 3k prediction game

[oskar]

nice one
even tho I think you're getting ahead of yourself here. Those are more like anno 5000 predictions. The problems I have with 'uploading yourself' are: how would you know which one you are, and how do you get rid of the gunk?

[wufwugy]

nice one
even tho I think you're getting ahead of yourself here. Those are more like anno 5000 predictions. The problems I have with 'uploading yourself' are: how would you know which one you are, and how do you get rid of the gunk?

No idea. But it's year 3000. I think I'm conservative here. Technology increases exponentially. Check out how far we've gotten in just 200 years since the Industrial Revolution. Multiply that by like a 100 and we'll be there in 2200. Multiply by a 1000 for 2250. Multiply by 1,000,000 for 2400. Some shit like that

I think it is probable the developed world achieves post-scarcity and disease/aging eradication by 2150, possibly earlier. Today, medical advancements are at a quicker pace than aging, and it is possible that the youth today will no longer die from aging causes. Ray Kurzweil thinks it will be sooner, and that the first person to live to 150 is 50 today.

As to how we would know "which one you are", how do we even know which one we are now? The lines are a little fuzzy, but it could probably be thought of like video games with save points. The old school consoles would take a while to save and only when you went to a certain spot and pressed certain buttons, but over time with the newer gens, saves became more automatic and frequent. Now some games save after every decision or shutdown or whatever. We could treat our consciousness just like we do this, where if you die, the mainframe is alerted and you're rebooted to your most recent or most appropriate checkpoint based on a variety of factors.

But even then this likely won't happen. It's too clunky. Before this ever became a thing our consciousnesses will likely exist in virtual realities instead of the real one. We're already in the primitive stages of this (internet is virtual), and over time we will gradually merge. It won't be some big event, but there will be steps along the way. This also means it will be more of a collective consciousness thing