Future Timeline

If artificial general intelligence is invented this century (and I'm sure it will be barring any existential catastrophes), then without question, the answer will be yes. The only thing more important than that would be the emergence of life itself on Earth, and for obvious reasons, we'll never know...

Just had a chance thought that most people on this forum still know me as the Mother Meki guy, completely and utterly unaware of what I've been working on for the past three years. Then again, it's not exactly "futurist" in too many ways except maybe in the Marinetti sense, so no wonder......

How brain-computer interfaces are turning thoughts into text Facebook (as it was then known, before it entered the Metaverse) made headlines when it started funding brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, searching for a way to allow users to create text just by thinking it. Facebook was interes...

Discussion from 2008, now relevant again What If Gas Cost $10 a Gallon? Recently exploring what would happen if gas prices reached $10 a gallon, an MSN Money columnist predicted thousands of truckers going out of business, airplanes sitting idle, and scores of restaurants and stores shutting down. O...

How High Could Gas Prices Go? Here's What Experts Fear Could Happen Across the country, including the Chicago area, gas prices are soaring, and quickly, but how high could they go? The price of regular gas broke $4 a gallon on Sunday for the first time in nearly 14 years and is now up nearly 50% fr...