You’re in a class room 2000 years from now, and you ask your teacher “what was it like 2000 years ago”?
How do they reply?
How would they reply after 10 000 years?
Let’s watch it, shall we?
No, let’s manipulate it.
Nano, where can I find your agenda displayed? I’m starting to wonder what it is…
I doubt you’d be sitting in a class room; it would most probably all be done through webcam on the net. Online lessons.
Hard to say. No giant leap to say that in many ways they’ll think we were foolish or naive about things.
But I think by that time we’ll probably have merged with technology, and be pretty much immmortal. In fact, I think in the next 100 or so years that will be possible. Knowledge won’t have to be learned gradually. It’ll be downloaded instantly. Human mental capacity will be shadowed by the capacity of AI. There will be no research centers where thinkers strain their minds trying to solve some riddle. It’ll be done by AI, and we (assuming that we still exists as we understand ‘we’) will receive the information from it. I don’t have any scientific data to back that up; but it seems right. I for one, plan to live forever, and as the saying goes, so far, so good.
cockroaches don’t speak
-Imp
Yes, bombs are hard to shout over.
I think you know what my agenda is. THAT is my agenda.
Let us compare 2000 back. We think Romans were barbaric and cruel with their ghastly rituals.
To our eyes, they weren’t much better than stone age man, with their violence and “uncivilized” behavior.
to the Romans however, they were the height of civilization and power. They existed at the end of a long
period of civilization which began with the Egyptians 3000 years earlier.
We exist today, as the height of civilization and power. we exist at the end of a long period of civilization.
does any of this sound familiar?
In 2000 years, we will be the barbaric and cruel ones with ghastly rituals, not much better than stone age man
with our violence and “uncivilized” behavior.
Kropotkin
Is time irrelevant, along with useless history? The dagger in the velvet glove of the upright man who is polite and defers to the very authority he wishes to replace. A robot who looks the other way with perfectly compassionate mimicry of human expression, as he pulls your plug.
I think H.G Wells got it damn close with those frail creatures of ultimate leisure who were unrecognizable to the reader, as they frittered with laughter, unrequired to do anything hard, so softness was inherent in even their moods. Thinking back 2000 yrs would be considered hard. So they wouldn’t think back at all. Nor could they.