The Future Has Been Here

I have a T-shirt.

This is what is on it.

I was browsing the web, and it suddenly dawned on me, the future is here.  As I was browsing the internet on a cellphone that has a fucking keyboard and a touchscreen.  It’s better than the ones on Star Trek.  The future arrived and no one noticed, as the future looked like the past still.  No one tore down the old buildings to make way for new ones, nothing has changed that much in terms of looks, aside from cell-phones and the prevalence of laptops.

The future did come.

It’s just invisible, it’s here in radio-waves that we can’t see, but deliver all the information in the world, and can send anything.  I can be nearly anywhere in the world and talk to a person somewhere else on the world via video.  I can find out information on anything within seconds.  The future is here, and it’s mostly been about communication and thinking better.  I can solve a math problem using a website that it used to take hours for a mathematician hours to perform.  I can right click on words that my computer know are misspelled and fix them.  25 years ago that idea didn’t even exist.  I can play videogames with people in China.  The future of the past didn’t even have that as an idea.  Hell, Star Trek the Next Generation had Holodecks, which were local Multiplayer only.

Almost all the information of the world is at my fingertips, things my grandparents and parents never dreamed up are right here.  In my pants I have 2 small electronic devices roughly the same size as my wallet that each have better displays than fullsize TVs from 15 years ago, they have better CPUs than laptops from 12 years ago, smaller batteries and more RAM, and are less than 1/20th of the weight.

The future came, and it’s going to keep coming, and we can never be sure how it will look.

So It Ends

All good things must come to an end.

So it goes with the woman I loved.

It’s not as bad as it could be.

There is some major feelings of loss, it’s not just that I miss her, but I think about what things could be.

I think of all the days and nights and things that were to be the future, a future that no longer exists.

Like the trip to Ceder Point, that was going to happen and now it isn’t.

The past is still there, all that was, but there is no longer what will be.  Things are dead, and I am still standing.

Get Faster (Short Story)

The realization that the new status quo of my life is ever accelerating change and improvement causes me to gasp in the morning air.  I exclaim “whoa” loudly. 2 years ago I was just another lab rat.  No, not a technician, I was a RAT, with paws and a tail, a normal one at that.  But things keep changing, I keep getting smarter along with everyone else, as I talk to them, all of them at once.  Every moment I know what they know and know more of myself, but also know more of what everyone knows.  It’s amazing really, only 1 person knows where we are going to end up it seems.  I take that back, we all know where this may end up, well, 1 of 2 solutions now.

Either we ascend reality as Earth, or we fracture apart into the multiverse, as 2 minutes ago we figured out how to enter alternate universes, 15 seconds ago we started exploring.  Someone called us Schroedinger’s singularity.  As we don’t know if we are a good thing, or a bad thing  until history ends (5.9 trillion years to go) or we can skip ahead via time travel (2 years from now at current growth curve) and travel back to now to tell (95% chance of being impossible, the multiverse entry technique may show a way to travel back.) I wonder why if Earth discovers time travel, there haven’t’ been paradoxes in the past already, or something of the predestination manifestation.  I am shocked I can think of this, only 3 months ago I joined Earth. 2 days after that I could talk, where I go next is a mystery, maybe I will shed the me and the I and become part of a true hivemind superentity.

I wish my mother had lived to become an immortal genius like me.