scifi levels - looking for link of article

Can anyone help me? I remember having read an article somewhere on the internet about the different stages of science fiction / free thinkers. I've tried searching, but to no avail. I only know that there were four stages and that the last, fourth category was about science fiction thinkers who think really far into the future..how earth, humanity, technology etc will be in 10000+ years. anyone know what I'm talking about? :o

>>1
There will be no humanity in 10000+ years, we'll be wiped out in about 100 years or less.  Looking that far forward in time is stupid anyway because you simply can't (singularity).

>>2
>100 years or less

lol, no you're wrong

haha, I hate this kind of stuff.  Humans can't even predict 10 years from now.  I remember back in the 80s everyone still thought there would be floating cars are shit by the year 2000.  The best examples are those shows where they get a few people to completely pull shit out of their ass about future technology, like how the UFOs that have supposedly visited Earth work and how we will build them.  "Uh there has to be an interia canceller, and it creates gravity."

>>4
What people fail when imagining future is that they take totally outlandish concept and use "magical" technology like handheld rayguns and spaceships that defy laws of physics. I mean who would have imagined current computers in 80s?

IN TEH FUTURE PEOPLE WILL SEND PICTURES OF BUTTSECHS TO EACH OTHER AND TYPE THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND THEY WILL CALL IT HARD GAY

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4 steps to immortality
1: Become billionaire
2: Buy Telomere
3: ???
4: Profit

>>4
Yes, but every once in a while, fiction doesn't delve too deep into fantasy and actually has a realistic outlook on the future. 2001: A Space Odyssey comes to mind.

The mistake that scifi writers always make is that they assume that as we advance in technology, we will somehow be able to create technologies that ignore or circumvent the laws of physics. "Inertial dampers" and "subspace communicators" are two examples that spring immediately to mind. Sorry, but the laws of physics we know today will still apply a hundred years from now.

>>9
Sorry, but the laws of physics we know today will still apply a hundred years from now.

Those "laws" are just theories, you know.  It is very much possible that they can be circumvented by some not-so-simple technique that has never occurred in the known history of the universe.

>>10
Thank you for so perfectly illustrating my point.

You don't seem to understand what the word "theory" means. They're not "just theories". They are concrete models for describing the universe, for which there is an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence. Devices like inertial dampers and subspace communicators violate the most fundamental laws of the universe, namely conservation of energy and causality; if some small device can simply set these laws aside, the entire field of science falls apart at the seams.

I sure hope you're not a scifi writer.

>>10
There is no reason to believe they can be bypassed whilst there is no evidence to suggest they can.

>>12
There is no reason to blindly accept what you are taught and consider no alternatives or complements, however unlikely or impossible.

>>11
The the entire field of science falls apart, one rebuilds it.  Of course, most magical technologies will probably not even have to break any of the laws.

>>13
Since there are infinite things that I could imagine, but which have no proof to back them up ergo...

1/infinity = 0

...therefore I should not believe in things which have no proof to suggest they occur.

I can tell you are a liberal. Put it this way, there are loads of religions and they all say "the other religions are devils trying to trick you", which one should I believe in?

>>14
I can tell that you are an American ;)

which one should I believe in?

None, religions are hocus-pocus without a base in reality.  Following a faith will turn you into a blind extremist that will look no other way.