{"id":734,"date":"2014-04-07T21:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T04:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/?p=734"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T05:33:30","slug":"what-is-the-next-great-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/what-is-the-next-great-age\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the next great age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Machine-intelligence.jpg\" alt=\"Machine-intelligence\" width=\"953\" height=\"707\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Machine-intelligence.jpg 953w, https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Machine-intelligence-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/>Or, what is the next great age?<\/p>\n<p>The great ages have moved from iron, bronze, steel, (skip a few), industrial, chemical, and silicon\/internet. Certainly the internet isn&#8217;t done and it will impact every future age just like past ages are built-in to ours. But what&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way to know and every guess will sound stupid in 100 years but why not take a shot. <!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The warp age<\/h2>\n<p>No joke, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5963263\/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive\">Nasa has engineers working on a warp drive<\/a>. They&#8217;re still a long ways off to making a space ship that can travel across the universe in moments. That being said, warp drive would usher in a new age of space travel and colonization. Ironically we may solve warp travel without solving warp communications. Distant colonies would be cut off from each other. It would be like a return to the 17th century.<\/p>\n<h2>The age of mental transference<\/h2>\n<p>Will it ever be possible to download our brains onto the network? Beyond all the crazy ethical implications, it&#8217;s hard to imagine how society would reshape itself when its possible to more or less live forever inside a virtual world.<\/p>\n<h2>The age of machine intelligence<\/h2>\n<p>This may be the most likely of the three. Machine intelligence has the possibility to both destroy mankind and help it transcend to a utopia. Or we&#8217;ll just build it to watch and spy on citizens incase they have the wrong thoughts. Damn terrorists.<\/p>\n<h2>Bonus reading<\/h2>\n<p>Isaac Asimov already answered what the last age will be with his amazing short story, <a href=\"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/the-last-question-by-isaac-asimov\/\">The Last Question<\/a>. If you haven&#8217;t read it shut everything down and do. It&#8217;ll only take 10 minutes and you will leave much more satisfied than when you read this blogpost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, what is the next great age? 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