I wonder if this is what people in earlier centuries felt, a bit of melancholy at the dream that hundreds of years from now someone may be able to walk on the then newly-discovered moon, and knowing they would not be around to see it happen.
Thing is, I felt sad when I heard about IP the first time, and some people said we were gonna have a huge network everyone can talk with each other, across borders. Because I thought we'd never achieve that in my lifetime.
But here we are, things move a lot faster (sometimes) than what you think. Maybe because of the inviting incentive of basically teleportation, research on wormholes will be faster.
(Sorry for relative offtopic)
Could you elaborate on this newly-discovered moon you’re speaking of?
At some point in the 17th century our technology allows us to have a better view of the Moon and even led to this https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/17th-century-a...
I think this may count as a new "discovery" phase of our relationship with the familiar celestial object, and may have indeed prompted an uptake in fantasies about perhaps one day walking in it.
Depending on your age, you will. With the massive progress quantum computing and further advances in AI will bring. I have a feeling we will be able to 'back up' people their brain within a few decades. Regrowing a body or producing a sufficiently advanced (and cheap) robotical surrogate may be further away, but technical immortality might be very achievable.
Speaking of other things that feel like science fiction, there's a good chance that we cure aging in the coming decades.
>I wonder if this is what people in the 17th century felt, a bit of melancholy at the dream that hundreds of years from now someone may be able to walk on the then newly-discovered moon...