General / Off-Topic Lord Rees on science fiction, space travel and post-humans

[Majere]

"It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong," joked Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and the former president of the Royal Society, at Wired 2013.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/18/martin-rees

 

[Sparticus]

A good read - especially liked this bit :

"Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things -- even entire worlds, entire universes. So perhaps we are all 'artificial life' in a virtual universe."