8.3 Billion Futures of Hope
Eight billion people, finite resources, and a future selected moment by moment — an argument for evolving rather than perishing. The clearest place to begin.
NOV 2011 · UPD 2026 · 4 MINOPEN →
One of the tests of time is whether what you say is still relevant in a future time
Eighteen years of futuristic predictions (I have been blogging since 2008), All posts pulled from "the Wayback Machine" as solid proof (search webmac.com), and timestamped by a system I don't have any control over (The Internet Archive).
With predictions about the lunar south pole — NASA will be building there. About Mars alive or dead with life? I guessed there might still be some kind of microbial life there, still waiting for that damn sample return mission! I only got one wrong, about a 302-neuron worm being simulated inside a computer. Not bad, and I will dare to make a few more predictions too . . . with a little help from AI.
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