What possible future event will you regret not being alive to witness?
 

I have often wondered what amazing things will happen in the future long after I am dead. I think I would most miss not being there to witness our first contact with an intelligent lifeform from another planet.

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the next time the Rangers win the Stanley Cup

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Knowing my luck I'll die three days before they invent the immortality pill. Seriously though if there are any scientists reading if you can get working on the society as described here I'd be much oblidged.

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The day when man, through his technology, becomes God.

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the legalisation of cannabis

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The end of paper money.

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Meh, been there, done that. It's not that exciting, trust me. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I wish I could live long enough to witness humans visiting other solar systems. However, there's probably no way that will happen in my lifetime -- if it ever happens at all.

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I hope I live long enough to see humans return to the Moon and land on Mars. Given my relative young age and NASA's plans, it seems rather likely that I will see those things, but things could go to hell either on my end or the world's end, and it would be disappointing not to see them.

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the legalisation of cannabis

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Talk about aiming low [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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The day when man, through his technology, becomes God.

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This will happen before the year 2050.

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The day when man, through his technology, becomes God.

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This will happen before the year 2050.

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Haven't we already mapped the genome? Aren't we already capable of playing god?

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It need not be intelligent, simply extraterrestrial. Hope I live long enough.

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Teleportation would be pretty cool.

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The extinction of humankind and the planet recovers and keeps on going.

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The extinction of humankind and the planet recovers and keeps on going.

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Sentient computers. Definitely.

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Sentient computers. Definitely.

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How do you know they're not already (to some degree) sentient?

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Because I program computers. And I don't think any of the emergence going on right now can qualify as sentience.

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Teleportation would be pretty cool.

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Just don't let the general riff-raff get ahold of it!

"Hey y'all, watch this!"

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Sentient computers. Definitely.

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How do you know they're not already (to some degree) sentient?

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How do you know that's not what we are?

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I have often wondered what amazing things will happen in the future long after I am dead. I think I would most miss not being there to witness our first contact with an intelligent lifeform from another planet.

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I have to agree with you, but on a personal note, anything that my daughter's are doing that I may not be alive to see.

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Because I program computers. And I don't think any of the emergence going on right now can qualify as sentience.

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They're so smart you can't tell. It's a trap!

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It need not be intelligent, simply extraterrestrial. Hope I live long enough.

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Run out of living things to hate here on earth?

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The first journey to Alpha Centauri, it's the nearest solar system (trinary system), 4 light years away, possible Earth-like planets and life.

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the next time the Rangers win the Stanley Cup

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NH sir.

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Have you read The Singularity is Near, but Ray Kurtzweil?

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Because I program computers. And I don't think any of the emergence going on right now can qualify as sentience.

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They're so smart you can't tell. It's a trap!

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LOL, I was planning on posting this exact same response.

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I have often wondered what amazing things will happen in the future long after I am dead. I think I would most miss not being there to witness our first contact with an intelligent lifeform from another planet.

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I have to agree with you, but on a personal note, anything that my daughter's are doing that I may not be alive to see.

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Good point...

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My parents got the moon landing. By the way things are going though I doubt I'll see a Mars landing, which is a shame.

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Knowing my luck I'll die three days before they invent the immortality pill. Seriously though if there are any scientists reading if you can get working on the society as described here I'd be much oblidged.

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I'd like to live in something like Iain Banks' the Culture series.

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I have often wondered what amazing things will happen in the future long after I am dead. I think I would most miss not being there to witness our first contact with an intelligent lifeform from another planet.

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I have to agree with you, but on a personal note, anything that my daughter's are doing that I may not be alive to see.

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Good point...

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Without my punctuation errors I assume.

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My parents got the moon landing. By the way things are going though I doubt I'll see a Mars landing, which is a shame.

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It's sad because it probably won't happen for political reasons, not for lack of technology.

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Nancy Pelosi saying anything intelligent

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Who cares? If there's no value in going to Mars, why should we go there? How about we fund cancer research or computer technology or something useful instead? Just as long as we're spending hundreds of billions, we might as well get something more from it than bragging rights.

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Witnesing cool sounding doomsday things like are described here:
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

But then again, who knows, maybe I will be around.

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Yep. Great book.

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As far as stuff in space... ANYTHING. New planet discorveries, aliens, wormhole travel, advanced space travel, etc. whatever it is, it will be cool.

On earth, I hope I live to see the evolution v. creation/ID/faerie tales agrument finally end in favor of evolution (obviously).

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For everyone who is trying to answer this question, please think of what someone from 1920 would do if they saw, oh, I don't know, THE INTERNET in action.

How the [censored] would you predict that to come about?

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Contact Day

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With the rapid acceleration of technology who knows what is possible. I do not personally look foward to a sentient computer nor do I think it will happen. I have a little background in Philosophy of the Mind but am by no means an expert so my opinion is not based in enougk knowledge to be extremely informed.

I do agree with the OP in that I would like to see contact with another life form outside of our own planet. The universe is so vast and our ability to explore it is almost uncomprehensible when trying to imagine how large it really is.

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The evolution of women into rational creatures and taste testing Soylent Green.