Thinking about far future raises concern for planet
A friend recently sent me an email about how much our lives have changed in the last 100 years. It was pretty amazing. Then I got to thinking: 100 years? How about another 500 years, or a thousand, or 5,000? By then, technology we literally can’t comprehend will be ubiquitous. The things they could likely do would truly seem like magic. We as a species may not even exist. Now think about geological or even galactic time frames. I can’t even begin to conceive of what that could look like. Nearly omnipotent pure energy beings that can flash across a galaxy in the blink of an eye? Or maybe entropy wins out and everything just dies.
Of course, our planet won’t make it anywhere near that long. We’ll have destroyed it long before then. And it won’t matter even a tiny little bit.
Where’s Larry Niven when you really need him?
MARK DAGUE Bentonville