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[Issmir]

Yes, the games sucks, but the principle is awesome. Only a matter of time (not much time) and you will be playing those in microsoft kinetics.

About the resources, that would be the main problem (already is!!!), but is all about elite main idea: In a far future we would be around the galaxy, everywhere, like a plague

About the end of it all, It will be in millions of years from now, it wont be a problem! We will create more matter and more universes so we can live happily forever. I see a bright future for humankind

I'm a huge lover of technology and would probably go transhuman the moment it was viable. But this is pure guesswork, and pretty shaky guesswork.

"not much time" before we crack the brain mapping problem? Why ? What discovery will we make in the near future that will crack the fundamental problems of how the human brain develops? how will we isolate precise and perfect signals at high bandwidth?

Elite presupposes that FTL is doable and even trivial with the kinds of energy required cheap and easy to tap in to. What makes you think that's actually real? We might be able to warp space and there are tentative experiments in that direction, but it's certainly not a faite acomplis. It's not unlikely that we'll be forever trapped at sub-c speeds and subject to relativistic laws.

We might have a bright future in over a million years, but we're going to have to get through this century first. If we can't deal with things like population growth, water and air pollution, energy supply, climate change pretty quickly we're in real trouble.

And even if all of what I've said turns out to be wrong... how does that solve the problem of societal stagnation? Come to that how do we cope with thousand, tens of thousands, millions of years worth of memories and remain even slightly human? Or sane?

TLDR - we MIGHT be able do some of the things you hope for. I hope for them too. but you're massively underestimating the problems that would need to be solved, and for many of them we don't even know if their is a solution to be found.

 

[Antichthon]

I'm a huge lover of technology and would probably go transhuman the moment it was viable. But this is pure guesswork, and pretty shaky guesswork.

"not much time" before we crack the brain mapping problem? Why ? What discovery will we make in the near future that will crack the fundamental problems of how the human brain develops? how will we isolate precise and perfect signals at high bandwidth?

Elite presupposes that FTL is doable and even trivial with the kinds of energy required cheap and easy to tap in to. What makes you think that's actually real? We might be able to warp space and there are tentative experiments in that direction, but it's certainly not a faite acomplis. It's not unlikely that we'll be forever trapped at sub-c speeds and subject to relativistic laws.

We might have a bright future in over a million years, but we're going to have to get through this century first. If we can't deal with things like population growth, water and air pollution, energy supply, climate change pretty quickly we're in real trouble.

And even if all of what I've said turns out to be wrong... how does that solve the problem of societal stagnation? Come to that how do we cope with thousand, tens of thousands, millions of years worth of memories and remain even slightly human? Or sane?

TLDR - we MIGHT be able do some of the things you hope for. I hope for them too. but you're massively underestimating the problems that would need to be solved, and for many of them we don't even know if their is a solution to be found.

Agreed. Discussing what is physically possible is useful, and fun. Putting a time range on when we will/if achieve any of it is foolish. The whole of humanity doesn't have the information to make such predictions, let alone a single individual.

 

[luma]

I'm a huge lover of technology and would probably go transhuman the moment it was viable. But this is pure guesswork, and pretty shaky guesswork.

"not much time" before we crack the brain mapping problem? Why ? What discovery will we make in the near future that will crack the fundamental problems of how the human brain develops? how will we isolate precise and perfect signals at high bandwidth?

Elite presupposes that FTL is doable and even trivial with the kinds of energy required cheap and easy to tap in to. What makes you think that's actually real? We might be able to warp space and there are tentative experiments in that direction, but it's certainly not a faite acomplis. It's not unlikely that we'll be forever trapped at sub-c speeds and subject to relativistic laws.

We might have a bright future in over a million years, but we're going to have to get through this century first. If we can't deal with things like population growth, water and air pollution, energy supply, climate change pretty quickly we're in real trouble.

And even if all of what I've said turns out to be wrong... how does that solve the problem of societal stagnation? Come to that how do we cope with thousand, tens of thousands, millions of years worth of memories and remain even slightly human? Or sane?

TLDR - we MIGHT be able do some of the things you hope for. I hope for them too. but you're massively underestimating the problems that would need to be solved, and for many of them we don't even know if their is a solution to be found.

We are talking about something we cant be sure about, all in a supposition plane. So mostly I agree with you.

To be clear in some I've said about controlling games only with brain waves, they are real. And in the last year we have seen some cool examples, not controlling a ball anymore. There is one game similar to street fight, not so complex, but this is only the beginning. There is a commercial device to PC too. I was saying that in the next couple of years or so you will have microsoft selling them with kinectic, that was the "not much time".
A full brain map will take longer

The relativity problem and c speed cap is a AE physics problem, but can be exceeded or even ignored in QM. Even the fact that the universe is not expanding or contracting can only be explained with QM math. There is too much to talk about - dark matter and quarks are not explanaible with classical physics, the leap given in last years is enormous. Find a particle that can be in 2 places at the same time (that was a theory 10 years ago) is breathless tech, and a All Purpose physics (everything theory) is needed to explain it, and this is only the beginning. A major effort is being taken to solve some new theoretically problem with practicable measures, and its now obvious that we need to forget all we know about classical physics (that was the 1st thing I've heard in my 1st year of QM - forget relativity), and to work with it, its true, you need to forget it for a moment, then you will be able to understand and use it properly.

Ofc this is only a game and only imagination is the limit. The 1st issue is that you cant plan a 100 LY travel because you dont really know if the star will be there when you arrive, at least with known classical physics
But there are some interesting and possible things happening in this game, and that makes it very cool.

EDIT: one more thing - saying that nothing can travel faster or at the same speed of light is a problem of the traveling concept. Maybe the key is change the concept of traveling. Change place without travel. Or the easy way and travel slower than light and bending timespace as suggested by AE. If controllable you could theoretically "travel" 1 meter that could represent 100 LY.