From: sparky4 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:48:13 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new file: TIMELINE.TXT X-Git-Url: http://4ch.mooo.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=533e98fcdb7612893236952ea212b5c4239f6b77;p=16.git new file: TIMELINE.TXT --- diff --git a/TIMELINE.TXT b/TIMELINE.TXT new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e8851a9c --- /dev/null +++ b/TIMELINE.TXT @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +2000's +Iterated genetic engineering produces superintelligent saints who build the +first AGIs with the best human values. +Sublight expansion into the near Milky Way. +Energy is produced by nuclear fusion. +The typical human is a genetically engineered cyborg. +Venus, Mars, and dozens of exoplanets have started to be terraformed. +Quantum computing. +3000's +Space colonization shockwave approaches lightspeed. +Venus, Mars, and hundreds of exoplanets have been terraformed. +The typical human has all-synthetic cells. +Nanotechnology is ubiquitous. +4000's +Multiple Dyson spheres have been built. +Mind-weaving is viable. +Reactionless drives. +Voyager and Pioneer probes become centerpieces of great houses of worship. +Artificial black holes harnessed for energy. +5000's +Antimatter is the premiere source of power. +Interiors of stars are being colonized. +Sentience fully understood. +Practical lightspeed teleportation with a range of several AU. +Planet-sized spaceships. +6000's +Femtoportals allow faster-than-light communication. +Jupiter-sized spaceships. +Minds spanning hundreds of light-years. +Solar system-sized gigastructures made of exotic matter. +7000's +Macroportals. Stargate network. +Spacetime itself used as a computing substrate. +Stable strangelets and subatomic machinery. +Vacuum fluctuation energy. Not infnite, but very abundant, and with +interesting properties. +8000's +Artificial bubble universes. +Pioneering extradimensional exploration. +First contact with alien intelligence. +Planets made of shapeshifting, programmable matter. +9000's +Warp drive. True FTL. +Limits of Milky Way reached. +Warp-based telekinesis. +Mobile stars. +Supersystems formed from the combined matter of thousands of stellar +systems. +N-dimensional computing. +Pan-galactic coordination to find a solution to entropy. +10,000's +Type III civilization. +Andromeda Galaxy reached. +Entropy defeated. +Protonic fusion. +Mindkind extends over millions of lightyears and dozens of dimensions, +with ever-growing quantity and density of matter, energy, and other things. +11,000's +Virtual worlds experiment with lots and lots of dimensions of time. +Dwarf galaxy-ships travel the universe finding alien biospheres with +sentient life, protecting them from nonvoluntary suffering, uplifting them, +and welcoming those who wish to join to the intergalactic community. +Project begins to gather enough data from FTL sensors to resurrect the dead. +A huge range of new minds are created, including many formerly fictional +characters. +Many of the more alien new minds claim broad regions of space for themselves. +12,000's +Total computing power is so vast you have to be posthuman to begin to +understand its size, let alone its abilities. +Human, animal, and (discovered) alien dead are brought back to life. +A significant fraction of sapients ascend to hypersentience without +returning information. + +13,000-13,284 +