An interesting topic came up in another thread, that got me thinking a lot, anther poster made comments about how they wish it was the 2300s aka the 24th century, and it got me thinking…just how accurate do you think science fiction is going to be?
My observation is that we had sci-fi shows in the 20th century like Space 1999 that predicted there would be colonies on the moon by that year, but in reality, that’s not actually happening until this decade, the 2020s. So it just got me thinking, how accurate is it all going to be?
This is just my personal opinion on the centuries…
21st century: When World War 3 is supposed to happen in most science fiction stories and games. I was meant to have happened already, but Russia actually refused to blow Biden to Hell when he visited Ukraine to avoid this scenario. No justification for what’s happening in Ukraine of course, but I think if it’s going to happen, will happen much later than the 2020s. Who knows, we may even avoid the whole thing, though we will be very lucky if we do.
22nd century: When Star Trek Enterprise and the Avatar series happen.
Personally, I don’t think we will even make it to Alpha Centauri by then, I think it’s highly likely we will have colonies on the moon and possibly Mars, and will have spread out further into the solar system, but I think it will take much longer to get to another star system, as here is the thing…going faster than light is still technically against the laws of physics, AND even if you could, this would actually cause you to BACKWARDS in time, therefore, until we find some way around that problem, it’s not likely that can get as far out as Pandora let alone further this early.
23rd century: When the Original Star Trek happens. I do believe it is more likely that we MAY have found a way to reach Alpha Centauri in this period with sub-light ships, though ONLY if we find suitable places to stay there. But this is assuming we don’t find underground oceans under Europa and other moons, and realistically we should attempt to put bases on Titan before spreading any further out than that.
24th century: When all the good Star Trek shows happen, even if we haven’t spread that far out beyond our own solar system, I do think it’s possible we will have Replicator tech, and more advanced holographic technology by this time.
25th century: When Starcraft happens. Given human nature, this is a much more likely scenario then Star Trek.
26th/27th century: When the Matrix happens and machines rule the Earth. I think a Terminator situation, or a M3gan android situation, is a pretty realistic possibility if we don’t program our machines properly with ethical subroutines that give a clear command not to kill anyone under any circumstances.
Final centuries of the millennium: When time travel is predicted to finally be a thing in most fiction stories. Problem is, when they attempted it in Star Trek it caused SO many problems that they effectively banned it anyway…
So it might not happen, as the law of causality follows from the fact that nothing can pass the speed of light, and the effect of an action can only occur AFTER the cause, therefore, time travel is impossible…and even if it wasn’t, and time travel technology is developed, you’d want it to be banned anyway, as it’s simply too dangerous, the possibility of a Temporal War or Time War is just too high and too great in my opinion. But luckily it probably won’t happen, as arrow of time will always continue to flow forward, never backwards…but this isn’t actually bad thing, as the more experience and history we have, the more we can learn from our mistakes and create a better future. So no, I don’t think time travel will happen…
But I do think it is highly likely we will have colonized most of the solar system by the end of the millennium.
So what do you all think, do you think I’m a bit of a pessimist albeit with a cautiously optimistic view of the future?
Also one last thing…to the poster that asked the question in the other thread, if you want to stay in the Matrix, you take the BLUE pill.
