24. Ultimate Futures
What options are there for the ultimate future, for us as individuals, and for humanity as whole?
24.1 Picotech and femtotech
24.2 Ultimate physics: births and deaths of universes
“How far is the edge of the universe?” by Fermilab
24.3 Beyond human death: cryonics and reanimation
Background to cryonics:
“Why cryonics makes sense” – Wait But Why essay by Tim Urban
“Inside the lab working to bring people back from the dead” – BBC video featuring Alcor
“Would You Freeze Yourself in A Cryo Chamber to See The Future?” by Life Noggin
Features the Cryonics Institute. Source: “Die. Freeze Body. Store. Revive” by The Atlantic
24.4 Space-time engineering and technological resurrection
Cosmism and the Future of Religion, with Giulio Prisco
24.5 The transcension hypothesis
“The Transcension Hypothesis – What comes after the singularity?” by Jason Silva
24.6 The simulation hypothesis
“Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument” by Kurzgesagt
“Why You’re Probably Not a Simulation” by David Kipping for Cool Worlds Lab
24.7 Parallel multiverse branches: communication beyond base reality
“What’s outside the universe” by James Beacham
“Bell’s Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox” by MinutePhysics and 3Blue1Brown
“The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics” by Sean Carroll
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