22:16 "look at this time lapse" Yeah? I'm looking, but all I see is Trace moving in real time, instead of a changing map over 20,000 years that I was expecting. 🤔🧐... Hey Trace? Was there supposed to be a map or did I misunderstand the instructions?
@@TraceDominguez Wow that time-lapse is... frightening, yeah I think that's the right word. The jump in change from today to 2050 is scary, thats a huge change.
OMG!! At the ripe old age of 14, I was catapulted into the vast world of futurism, world building, alien landscapes, etc. by reading, no absorbing my very first Sci-Fi book, "Starship"... Never to return...I still own and cherish that tattered, worn paperback... Thank you for a wonderful series and for conjuring up a cherished memory...
To clarify my semantics I use the Moores law of transistors doubling up every two years, and ignore the details of the cost for the most part. For a good while it was actually doubling quite a bit faster than that, but it has noticeably slowed down. Big organizations using it as a rough roadmap, are now shifting away from it as they run in to physical limits and need more sophisticated metrics to avoid bashing their heads against that particular wall. - Point being, I would put good money on a singularity not happening. I know that Moores Law isnt the be all and end all of technological advancement, but its a prime example of something that happens all the time: People have been claiming that AI would grow smarter out of control since Turing, but we see it consistently run in to limits where the difficulty for each successive advancement grows far faster than the power and knowledge to accomplish it. From self driving cars*1 to the grand father of hurdles The Turing test*2. - Or perhaps I should put it another way, I think in some senses we already had our singularity, our technological revolution. In just my life time every last aspect of how we do things has completely changed. Ive worked in places that still had card based filing and the odd typewriter gathering dust next to super computers. Now we are entering the tail of that revolution and things are going to require a lot more ingenuity and time to progress. Like computer game graphics, a single 3DFX graphics processor saw an unbelievable advance in graphics. Then Nvidia etc took off, and more, and more advances, but each smaller than the last. Now I play five year old games that could have been released this year, and it can take up to a decade to get the same impressive leap we saw in the early days. If you think about it it makes sense, the number of details keeps going up, its like a fractal there is no end to it and every time you add another set of triangles (I forget the name of that particular fractal so I hope you know what I mean.) on they have to be added to the sides of every prior triangle. - Exponential growth in technology is only going to get you a singularity if the difficulty isnt going up with a higher exponent. So far, Ive seen little evidence that thats the case. - - *1. Every single car manufacturer predicted fully automated cars on the roads by pretty much, well, now. Every single car manufacturer is now saying they are unsure of when this will be possible at all... - *2. Contrary to the odd pop-science article every so often, nobody has come even remotely close to passing the Turing test.
I think we’re still on track to integrate with machines, not in the way imagined in the 80s (as a cyberpunk future) but wearable technology, subtle AI running all around us all the time, and other minor technological conveniences that can wrap around and intertwine with us are inevitable (barring some kind of Luddite revolution by world governments, which is entirely possible!)
@@TraceDominguez Yeah, I think the difficulties we run in to just spur on different ways of thinking about things. Similar to the wearables vs cybernetics, we may not have KITT style AI cars any time soon, but there are trials with convoys and pre-programmed routes for trucks; Human drivers leading AIs on more predictable roads. Just as Id bet on no singularity happening, I also see no sign of human ingenuity running dry either.
“We borrow energy from future generation’s prosperity”. A beneficial adaptation for humans would be a better understanding of time, not just intellectually but instinctually
Trace! I first discovered your work thru Hulu about 8 or 9 years ago probably. Back when DNews was a thing lol. Followed you thru seeker and when you did the podcast style TestTube Plus. I completely fell in love with you and am so glad that you are doing your own thing on UA-cam!!! Been following you since the beginning!! I'm pretty sure I had a crush on you for a bit. Maybe I still do. Weird, I know, since I'm a stranger and all lol.
I imagine a civilisation in 10,000 years, that is a massiv hivemind, but could download individual consciousness into physical bodys. As a K2 civilisation we whould have a stellar engine, using our solar system as a spacecraft to explore and colonize the milky way. I hope the Erth whould be like a giant nature preserve and the the computers on which the hive mind run are floating as O'Niel cylinders in lagrange points and astaroids.
Man, I never get tired of your videos!! I'm glad you have your own channel now! I really love your format! Thank you again for putting in the work to give great content. Yooo it would be sick for you to have a podcast that interviews different science people. You can defo be a good host! defintitely love what you do. I was sad I didnt see you on dnews or seeker anymore but I'm glad you have your own channel! Defo a subscriber for ur channel!
I think that in regards to how much change we can see within the next hundred years, it's also probably worth considering that human progress has not always been as linear as we could argue it to be now, with the advent of recent technologies. Just as we have a chance of our society being greatly altered, for all we know, we can remain relatively stagnant for the next century. There could be unforeseen obstacles in developing technology that could boost advancement, such as ethical issues, lack of funding/government backing, consequences of climate change influencing our daily lives more prevalently, etc. We won't really know what'll happen until time passes, but for now it's fun to speculate :)
I agree with all this, except that I think society will shift slowly no matter what, similar to how is has over the last 100 years. (That applies both Progressively or Regressively). Women may lose / gain more autonomy in society, LGBTQIA+ may become more / less visible, etc. Music and pop culture will continue to iterate and evolve as younger generations have differing appetites than their parents (and wish to differentiate) stuff like that.
Humans are entering the New Stone Age, where they get stoned, before stoning one another. Then, grow up to enter the Cream Pie Age then get stoned and then have fun frolicking food fights. The final show is the Age of Enlightenment, after the encore they take a bow, before the final curtain falls signaling The Age of Extinction.
Really loved this series. It was amazing to learn how we came to be what we are, how there was healthy and sometimes unhealthy competition between us and the rest of human like species, and what we might possibly be in the future.
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Makes me wonder, how will civilization be in 100,000 years or a million years. Great episode!
Thank You Trace! This series was great, and I love hypotheticals. These videos "paint" a great perspective of our time on this planet and the possibilities of our future. Another Great Series completed Trace, I cannot wait to see what you have next for us. You're amazing, thank you for keeping my brain fresh and grounding my thoughts in science. EDIT: ALMOST forgot, your kitten is adorable!! So cute.
Love your videos! You have a soothing voice and great ideas. Keep the good content coming! The youtube's algorithm has been too harsh on your videos so it's time to click the bell for me :)
I love wildly speculating about this stuff, but I also get incredibly sad that I won't be around to see it. I wish I had a Time Machine so I could just glimpse what the future will be like 10k years from now. Great episode!
I don't believe the Singularity will really happen. I think there are fundamental flaws in its application that cannot be overcome. I also don't like calling it The Singularity, it gives it more dramatic importance and marketing than it deserves.
Thoroughly enjoyed this series Trace. In my 60 revolutions around the sun, I have witnessed massive changes....more so in technology. Unfortunately we are still going 3 steps forward and 2 steps back due in most parts to religions and the world population always wanting to divide and fight amongst itself. Once we all live together as one can the human species truly move forward and succeed...Cheers
I just discovered you channel after seeing you on Briancraft sleep videos and was like you are alive and have a channel. must check it out! Missed you on the Dnews and those shows
I'm a little surprised you didn't touch on the economy. The way I see it, nearly all jobs would be obsoleted by technology. The only people who work (whatever that work may be) would do so more out of ambition or to buy themselves something extra. But otherwise, I would see a future where machines take care of all our basic needs and therefore, the idea of poverty would cease to exist.
I feel like that would be a completely different series, but what an interesting one!! This was more about how humanity is going to grow and change, not how “the things that we do to fill time” will grow and change. I love that you’re thinking outside the box tho!!
• 1:09 - You're Canadian, didn't they make you read _The Chrysalids_ in school? It's like _Starship_ but with more psychic powers. • 9:20 - Fuller's estimation is specious. Knowledge is sigmoidal; it takes a while to get going, then shoots up quickly, then it levels off to an asymptote. The more you learn, the less there is left to learn, and the harder it gets to learn it. Look at how inventions exploded for a while by garage inventors, but now, fewer inventions are made, and usually only by people in labs. The same goes for medicine and technology; Moore's law is already broken because we've run into its limits thanks to quantum-tunneling effects and such. We've had to switch to different technologies like FINFETs, but even that's just a stop-gap to buy time. Even the great John B. Goodenough is having a hard time making better and better batteries. - On a tangential note, don't forget non-science factors like corporate greed. Conspiracy-theories aside, plenty of companies have a vested interests in limiting advancements. • 9:41 - 99% of photos have been taken recently, but that's only because it's now essentially free to take nearly infinite photos, but that doesn't mean they all count. Each frame in a video is technically a photo, but they don't count any more than the 50 rapid shots of a flower that someone took, almost all of which are blurry or mis-framed. They have to be consolidated into one photo. • 11:21 - I would imagine that at that point, people wouldn't even have sex anymore, they'd just use technology to do cyber stuff. (Pleasure itself will end up being like lab rats that have an electrode implanted in their brains to stimulate their pleasure centers, which causes them to stop eating or anything else and just keep pushing the button until they die of dehydration. At least drugs would be obsolete, so people won't have to choke on smoke or vapor from someone standing 100 feet away from them. ¬_¬) • 11:39 - Whenever the concept of uploading your brain or cloning yourself comes up, I always point to _The 6th Day_ (2000). Near the end, the bad guy gets shot, so he scans his brain to prepare a clone, but the clone comes out before he dies, so for a while there, there are two of him. The clone would continue to live, but _he_ would die. That means cloning your mind is _not_ the same as being immortal; a clone with all your memories is no different than an identical twin, it's still _another person._ If every atom of your body were copied and an identical duplicate were made a few feet to the left, would you be okay with dying? • 19:39 - Kurtzgesagt just did a video like that. It's weird to think that future archaeologists will sift through our junk and wonder about us, but then again, we've created orders of magnitude more junk than all past generations combined, so I doubt future archaeologists will care or bother, especially if they can just download records and databases to get information. The only way that they'd actually bother would be if something happens à la _Aftermath: Population Zero_ and almost everything is wiped away by nature over time. (Which sounds great; the plants and animals would get a second shot at the world. ¬_¬) • 20:50 - Most people are _still_ waiting for their jet-packs and flying cars. (I'm waiting for the egg-chairs and silver jumpsuits. 😀) • 21:09 - A lot of people would argue a lot of people _today_ aren't the same species. Zoomers. Blech. What even are they? 😒 • 23:22 - What? No. The _Jetsons_ didn't evolve to living in a thinner atmosphere. Why do you think there were so many bubbles? 🤦 Their cars, homes, everything is under a dome because everything is pressurized. (Which is impressive they thought of that.) • 23:30 - So in the future, video-game character-creators will be real? If I can't get genes to make me fly, then it's all useless. ¬_¬ • 23:58 - Careful there. Nanotechnology can be very dangerous, especially when you consider the inevitability of general-purpose A.I. (Just last night, FOX premiered their show _Next_ about an A.I.) • 25:39 - Archaeologists still use phrenology to identify species? 🤨 🤦 • 27:35 - You're more generous than I am. I think of humans as being worse than flour beetles (MythBusters tested the myth about cockroaches surviving a nuclear apocalypse and found that fruit-flies fared better and flour beetles fared best). I say "worse" because humans will find a way to survive no matter what, which to a misanthrope is not a good thing. ¬_¬ Sorry to end on a downer. 🤷 Good series. I look forward to the next one. 👍
Quality video my friend, I am firmly subscribed. You mentioned that most sci-fi doesn't take place in the far future. My all-time number one sci-fi author, Iain M Banks (RIP) wrote a series of books about an advanced society of humanoids in the far, far future called the 'Culture'. Check them out if you haven't already, they are fantastic. And keep up the good work.
The prospect of modifying our genes is cool, but we should be wary of the social implications (just look at the film GATTACA, as an extreme, but notable cautionary tale)
I love the idea of people not being prejusdice because we may all be the same color or gender although I know human kind will ALWAYS find something to fight about. But then again in 10000 years we probably won't be human anymore so....
Y'know what I wish would happen in the future is that humans teach animals to learn what we know. It would help everyone. Well obviously with a few catches of the "smart" animals now consuming more. Overall, it would be pretty cool, though. But, obviously humans are too selfish and narcissistic for that to happen.
This was a great episode and really got me considering a lot of things I never thought about. Now I'm thinking at some point humans will be what every they want to be, and if they are then are they still humans at all? At some point does mastery of genetics and new understandings of consciousness turn us into practically gods. Future people could be able to design their own lifeforms and grow them in artificial wombs. I've always considered AI and robots or cyborgs as the possible future, but never considered we could gain the ability to create organic life as easily as inorganic. At some point does one form of life become more predominant or does it matter at all if we manage to find a way to transfer consciousness to any organic or inorganic body at any time. It is commonly thought that if people can become immortal that overpopulation becomes a problem, but if people can become immortal will there still be a need for reproduction. Even if it is, instead of new life why not some sort of clone or artificial creation? Does life lose all value if it can be created at will and exists indefinitely?
Climate change on earth in 10,000 years? Wait till u think about what we did to our neighboring celestial objects in 10,000 years!! Ps: It didn't even took us a century to change climate on earth
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22:16 "look at this time lapse"
Yeah? I'm looking, but all I see is Trace moving in real time, instead of a changing map over 20,000 years that I was expecting. 🤔🧐... Hey Trace? Was there supposed to be a map or did I misunderstand the instructions?
DAMMIT. Yes you were supposed to see THIS map: ua-cam.com/video/C3Jwnp-Z3yE/v-deo.html
@@TraceDominguez wow. That's a drastic jump from today to 2050 CE. Now having seen the map, it makes more sense.
@@TraceDominguez Wow that time-lapse is... frightening, yeah I think that's the right word. The jump in change from today to 2050 is scary, thats a huge change.
The future generations will look back at our memes and think of them as perfect comedy
OMG!! At the ripe old age of 14, I was catapulted into the vast world of futurism, world building, alien landscapes, etc. by reading, no absorbing my very first Sci-Fi book, "Starship"... Never to return...I still own and cherish that tattered, worn paperback... Thank you for a wonderful series and for conjuring up a cherished memory...
It totally changed my perspective !! Glad we have something to share 💖
I really missed Test Tube! I'm glad you decided to do your own thing using it as a framework!! Awesome stuff! Keep it up! CHEERS!
Welcome back! Thanks for joining us 💖
To clarify my semantics I use the Moores law of transistors doubling up every two years, and ignore the details of the cost for the most part.
For a good while it was actually doubling quite a bit faster than that, but it has noticeably slowed down. Big organizations using it as a rough roadmap, are now shifting away from it as they run in to physical limits and need more sophisticated metrics to avoid bashing their heads against that particular wall.
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Point being, I would put good money on a singularity not happening. I know that Moores Law isnt the be all and end all of technological advancement, but its a prime example of something that happens all the time: People have been claiming that AI would grow smarter out of control since Turing, but we see it consistently run in to limits where the difficulty for each successive advancement grows far faster than the power and knowledge to accomplish it. From self driving cars*1 to the grand father of hurdles The Turing test*2.
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Or perhaps I should put it another way, I think in some senses we already had our singularity, our technological revolution. In just my life time every last aspect of how we do things has completely changed. Ive worked in places that still had card based filing and the odd typewriter gathering dust next to super computers. Now we are entering the tail of that revolution and things are going to require a lot more ingenuity and time to progress. Like computer game graphics, a single 3DFX graphics processor saw an unbelievable advance in graphics. Then Nvidia etc took off, and more, and more advances, but each smaller than the last. Now I play five year old games that could have been released this year, and it can take up to a decade to get the same impressive leap we saw in the early days. If you think about it it makes sense, the number of details keeps going up, its like a fractal there is no end to it and every time you add another set of triangles (I forget the name of that particular fractal so I hope you know what I mean.) on they have to be added to the sides of every prior triangle.
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Exponential growth in technology is only going to get you a singularity if the difficulty isnt going up with a higher exponent. So far, Ive seen little evidence that thats the case.
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*1. Every single car manufacturer predicted fully automated cars on the roads by pretty much, well, now. Every single car manufacturer is now saying they are unsure of when this will be possible at all...
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*2. Contrary to the odd pop-science article every so often, nobody has come even remotely close to passing the Turing test.
I think we’re still on track to integrate with machines, not in the way imagined in the 80s (as a cyberpunk future) but wearable technology, subtle AI running all around us all the time, and other minor technological conveniences that can wrap around and intertwine with us are inevitable (barring some kind of Luddite revolution by world governments, which is entirely possible!)
@@TraceDominguez Yeah, I think the difficulties we run in to just spur on different ways of thinking about things. Similar to the wearables vs cybernetics, we may not have KITT style AI cars any time soon, but there are trials with convoys and pre-programmed routes for trucks; Human drivers leading AIs on more predictable roads.
Just as Id bet on no singularity happening, I also see no sign of human ingenuity running dry either.
“We borrow energy from future generation’s prosperity”.
A beneficial adaptation for humans would be a better understanding of time, not just intellectually but instinctually
Trace! I first discovered your work thru Hulu about 8 or 9 years ago probably. Back when DNews was a thing lol. Followed you thru seeker and when you did the podcast style TestTube Plus. I completely fell in love with you and am so glad that you are doing your own thing on UA-cam!!! Been following you since the beginning!! I'm pretty sure I had a crush on you for a bit. Maybe I still do. Weird, I know, since I'm a stranger and all lol.
Aww welcome to my channel Cynthia!! After all that time it’s almost like we’re old friends 💜
@@TraceDominguez yes! Definitely feels like we're old friends. Thanks for replying. It made my day, truly! ❤
I imagine a civilisation in 10,000 years, that is a massiv hivemind, but could download individual consciousness into physical bodys. As a K2 civilisation we whould have a stellar engine, using our solar system as a spacecraft to explore and colonize the milky way. I hope the Erth whould be like a giant nature preserve and the the computers on which the hive mind run are floating as O'Niel cylinders in lagrange points and astaroids.
Man, I never get tired of your videos!! I'm glad you have your own channel now! I really love your format! Thank you again for putting in the work to give great content. Yooo it would be sick for you to have a podcast that interviews different science people. You can defo be a good host!
defintitely love what you do. I was sad I didnt see you on dnews or seeker anymore but I'm glad you have your own channel! Defo a subscriber for ur channel!
Thanks Manny! Welcome back! 🙌
dune...thats 10,000 years into the future.
I think that in regards to how much change we can see within the next hundred years, it's also probably worth considering that human progress has not always been as linear as we could argue it to be now, with the advent of recent technologies. Just as we have a chance of our society being greatly altered, for all we know, we can remain relatively stagnant for the next century. There could be unforeseen obstacles in developing technology that could boost advancement, such as ethical issues, lack of funding/government backing, consequences of climate change influencing our daily lives more prevalently, etc. We won't really know what'll happen until time passes, but for now it's fun to speculate :)
I agree with all this, except that I think society will shift slowly no matter what, similar to how is has over the last 100 years. (That applies both Progressively or Regressively). Women may lose / gain more autonomy in society, LGBTQIA+ may become more / less visible, etc. Music and pop culture will continue to iterate and evolve as younger generations have differing appetites than their parents (and wish to differentiate) stuff like that.
Humans are entering the New Stone Age, where they get stoned, before stoning one another. Then, grow up to enter the Cream Pie Age then get stoned and then have fun frolicking food fights. The final show is the Age of Enlightenment, after the encore they take a bow, before the final curtain falls signaling The Age of Extinction.
Really loved this series. It was amazing to learn how we came to be what we are, how there was healthy and sometimes unhealthy competition between us and the rest of human like species, and what we might possibly be in the future.
Makes me wonder, how will civilization be in 100,000 years or a million years. Great episode!
It’s CRAZY to think about.
I thought you didn’t exist anymore! So glad this content is back! I remember being really sad that the Dnews+ podcast ended
This channel has such good topics
Thank You Trace! This series was great, and I love hypotheticals. These videos "paint" a great perspective of our time on this planet and the possibilities of our future.
Another Great Series completed Trace, I cannot wait to see what you have next for us. You're amazing, thank you for keeping my brain fresh and grounding my thoughts in science.
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ALMOST forgot, your kitten is adorable!! So cute.
Thanks on all counts!!
I'm reading a book about singularity, great video Trace!
you should just do a show on R. Kurzweil's work.....dear lord that man is an oracle
Also, let's remember that teleportation is suicide+cloning =P
AHHH I KNOWWWW
AMAZING! as always Trace! And hey! If you need any help with editing, I'd be more than happy to help :)
Love your videos! You have a soothing voice and great ideas. Keep the good content coming! The youtube's algorithm has been too harsh on your videos so it's time to click the bell for me :)
Amazing series, Trace! such a fan, keep it up! Greetings from Mexico City!
¡Gracias Enrique!
Just a slight correction the last of the woolly mammoths lived on islands off of Siberia until 4000 BC
10,000 Years? it wont be humans left
Maybe humans will be something else by then
I love wildly speculating about this stuff, but I also get incredibly sad that I won't be around to see it. I wish I had a Time Machine so I could just glimpse what the future will be like 10k years from now. Great episode!
I’d love a glimpse into both the past AND the future!
This was a great series
Dont think you’ve discussed this in other series. But please do one about sexuality, asexuality and everything in between.
Yeah! So fun!
Let's watch "The Man from Earth" together!
Great show as always Trace ;)
Thank you!
I don't believe the Singularity will really happen. I think there are fundamental flaws in its application that cannot be overcome. I also don't like calling it The Singularity, it gives it more dramatic importance and marketing than it deserves.
Thoroughly enjoyed this series Trace. In my 60 revolutions around the sun, I have witnessed massive changes....more so in technology. Unfortunately we are still going 3 steps forward and 2 steps back due in most parts to religions and the world population always wanting to divide and fight amongst itself.
Once we all live together as one can the human species truly move forward and succeed...Cheers
Thanks for the insight Rob!
I just discovered you channel after seeing you on Briancraft sleep videos and was like you are alive and have a channel. must check it out! Missed you on the Dnews and those shows
Welcome back!! Thanks for being here :))
Who is making thumbnails for this channel? And if you are the one making, please can you teach me.
I am the one making them, as well as all the graphics, filming, writing… it just comes with practice!
TRACE!!! You're awesome!!! Hope you and the family are doing well!
Hey Chris! Thanks man!!
A rare mutation half flesh-half robotic modified parts🤖
I'm a little surprised you didn't touch on the economy. The way I see it, nearly all jobs would be obsoleted by technology. The only people who work (whatever that work may be) would do so more out of ambition or to buy themselves something extra. But otherwise, I would see a future where machines take care of all our basic needs and therefore, the idea of poverty would cease to exist.
I feel like that would be a completely different series, but what an interesting one!! This was more about how humanity is going to grow and change, not how “the things that we do to fill time” will grow and change. I love that you’re thinking outside the box tho!!
This was fun.
Glad you liked it!
good series
• 1:09 - You're Canadian, didn't they make you read _The Chrysalids_ in school? It's like _Starship_ but with more psychic powers.
• 9:20 - Fuller's estimation is specious. Knowledge is sigmoidal; it takes a while to get going, then shoots up quickly, then it levels off to an asymptote. The more you learn, the less there is left to learn, and the harder it gets to learn it. Look at how inventions exploded for a while by garage inventors, but now, fewer inventions are made, and usually only by people in labs. The same goes for medicine and technology; Moore's law is already broken because we've run into its limits thanks to quantum-tunneling effects and such. We've had to switch to different technologies like FINFETs, but even that's just a stop-gap to buy time. Even the great John B. Goodenough is having a hard time making better and better batteries. - On a tangential note, don't forget non-science factors like corporate greed. Conspiracy-theories aside, plenty of companies have a vested interests in limiting advancements.
• 9:41 - 99% of photos have been taken recently, but that's only because it's now essentially free to take nearly infinite photos, but that doesn't mean they all count. Each frame in a video is technically a photo, but they don't count any more than the 50 rapid shots of a flower that someone took, almost all of which are blurry or mis-framed. They have to be consolidated into one photo.
• 11:21 - I would imagine that at that point, people wouldn't even have sex anymore, they'd just use technology to do cyber stuff. (Pleasure itself will end up being like lab rats that have an electrode implanted in their brains to stimulate their pleasure centers, which causes them to stop eating or anything else and just keep pushing the button until they die of dehydration. At least drugs would be obsolete, so people won't have to choke on smoke or vapor from someone standing 100 feet away from them. ¬_¬)
• 11:39 - Whenever the concept of uploading your brain or cloning yourself comes up, I always point to _The 6th Day_ (2000). Near the end, the bad guy gets shot, so he scans his brain to prepare a clone, but the clone comes out before he dies, so for a while there, there are two of him. The clone would continue to live, but _he_ would die. That means cloning your mind is _not_ the same as being immortal; a clone with all your memories is no different than an identical twin, it's still _another person._ If every atom of your body were copied and an identical duplicate were made a few feet to the left, would you be okay with dying?
• 19:39 - Kurtzgesagt just did a video like that. It's weird to think that future archaeologists will sift through our junk and wonder about us, but then again, we've created orders of magnitude more junk than all past generations combined, so I doubt future archaeologists will care or bother, especially if they can just download records and databases to get information. The only way that they'd actually bother would be if something happens à la _Aftermath: Population Zero_ and almost everything is wiped away by nature over time. (Which sounds great; the plants and animals would get a second shot at the world. ¬_¬)
• 20:50 - Most people are _still_ waiting for their jet-packs and flying cars. (I'm waiting for the egg-chairs and silver jumpsuits. 😀)
• 21:09 - A lot of people would argue a lot of people _today_ aren't the same species. Zoomers. Blech. What even are they? 😒
• 23:22 - What? No. The _Jetsons_ didn't evolve to living in a thinner atmosphere. Why do you think there were so many bubbles? 🤦 Their cars, homes, everything is under a dome because everything is pressurized. (Which is impressive they thought of that.)
• 23:30 - So in the future, video-game character-creators will be real? If I can't get genes to make me fly, then it's all useless. ¬_¬
• 23:58 - Careful there. Nanotechnology can be very dangerous, especially when you consider the inevitability of general-purpose A.I. (Just last night, FOX premiered their show _Next_ about an A.I.)
• 25:39 - Archaeologists still use phrenology to identify species? 🤨 🤦
• 27:35 - You're more generous than I am. I think of humans as being worse than flour beetles (MythBusters tested the myth about cockroaches surviving a nuclear apocalypse and found that fruit-flies fared better and flour beetles fared best). I say "worse" because humans will find a way to survive no matter what, which to a misanthrope is not a good thing. ¬_¬
Sorry to end on a downer. 🤷 Good series. I look forward to the next one. 👍
thank you for this book man, been looking for something to read, you can to the rescue, this one is awesome.
Quality video my friend, I am firmly subscribed. You mentioned that most sci-fi doesn't take place in the far future. My all-time number one sci-fi author, Iain M Banks (RIP) wrote a series of books about an advanced society of humanoids in the far, far future called the 'Culture'. Check them out if you haven't already, they are fantastic.
And keep up the good work.
Oooh I will add them to my book list!
@@TraceDominguez Do it! I recommend starting with Consider Phlebus.
Go Trace Go!
Woot!!
Why did you leave Seeker?
I have a video about that on this channel, but basically it was time to go. They wanted to go one way, and I wanted to go another!
Aren't events of Portal 2 set like 50 000 years into the future?
The prospect of modifying our genes is cool, but we should be wary of the social implications (just look at the film GATTACA, as an extreme, but notable cautionary tale)
GATTACA IS A CLASSIC
I love the idea of people not being prejusdice because we may all be the same color or gender although I know human kind will ALWAYS find something to fight about. But then again in 10000 years we probably won't be human anymore so....
I think the timeline in Isac Asimov book series are long enough to consider it as an example… if that makes sense.
😂 love ❤️ you trace. Blushing ☺️
Y'know what I wish would happen in the future is that humans teach animals to learn what we know. It would help everyone. Well obviously with a few catches of the "smart" animals now consuming more. Overall, it would be pretty cool, though. But, obviously humans are too selfish and narcissistic for that to happen.
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Amazing!!!!!
@@TraceDominguez yes, women in STEM are connecting the dots & advancing said 10,000 years of progress.
Do you make you own thumbnails.... they actually look really great
joshua harris I do! I make all the thumbs and graphics :)
This was a great episode and really got me considering a lot of things I never thought about. Now I'm thinking at some point humans will be what every they want to be, and if they are then are they still humans at all? At some point does mastery of genetics and new understandings of consciousness turn us into practically gods. Future people could be able to design their own lifeforms and grow them in artificial wombs. I've always considered AI and robots or cyborgs as the possible future, but never considered we could gain the ability to create organic life as easily as inorganic. At some point does one form of life become more predominant or does it matter at all if we manage to find a way to transfer consciousness to any organic or inorganic body at any time. It is commonly thought that if people can become immortal that overpopulation becomes a problem, but if people can become immortal will there still be a need for reproduction. Even if it is, instead of new life why not some sort of clone or artificial creation? Does life lose all value if it can be created at will and exists indefinitely?
Type 2 less hundred years
Climate change on earth in 10,000 years? Wait till u think about what we did to our neighboring celestial objects in 10,000 years!!
Ps: It didn't even took us a century to change climate on earth
What if about ,humans going out of existence are any chances of that just a dum question
I think people should at least be allowed to pick their own sex! Not let their parents do that. What if the child doesn't identify with it?
I think I look like Donald Trump in 10000 years..🌝
make catgirls real and I'll be happy looking at them all day
it’s the lack of nuance for me