I think it will be world peace. Not permanent world peace though, just a day or two that no active war happens to be going on. Of course it's pretty hard to determine what does and doesn't constitute as peace (North- and South-Korea are technically still at war, for instance).
Don't we technically have world peace every day that we're not having a world war?
It boils down to the race to immortality v. extinction in my mind.
The universe has a finite lifetime. There us NO possibility of immortality.
Even if you lived in an infinite universe, you'd only provably achieve immortality after an infinite amount of time. I kind of think all the other impossibilities will happen way before that.
In 2040 Bruce Willis will be 85. What's he gonna do? Tell the asteroid to get off his lawn?
I think he's suppose to blow up the asteroid before it hits us and before the asteroid-people send their Bruce Willis to blow up a 14000km wide rock which is on a collision course with them.
there is no dark side of the moon. At least, no permanent one -- of course, one side is dark at any moment,
You're not taking Earthlight into consideration. Midnight (moon time) on the near side always has a full Earth brightening things up. Midnight on the far side is extremely Dark.
account.balance += account.balance + account.balance << 3;
Sadly, I'm afraid the average
The thing is they're right : shift has lower precedence than adding so what you're really doing is
account.balance += (account.balance + account.balance ) << 3;
which actually multiplies your balance by 17.
The Universal translator is the most absolutely needed tech here and in Star Trek's future. Who wants to go visit hundreds of new civilisations and not understand any of them.
Imagine you're a french captain on where all the other gadgets only understand English. You could yell "Je voudrais un vin rouge, s'il vous plaît" at the replicator all day and it would never ever give you that cup of earl gray tea hot.
The universal translator would translate your battle speech "Retraite! Retraite! Retraite!" into something your English crew could understand like "The line must be drawn here! This far and no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done! Attack!"
Is it really surprising that it seems implausible to a man who doesn't even understand the concept of "peak speed"?
You could actually explain terms rather being an elitist know it all. I asked a couple of people I know about peak speed and got two different answers, so I still don't know
Keitha said that Peak Speed is like Peak OIl. That network speeds will increase for a few years before reaching a peak and continue to decline after that. We can push back the date of peak speed further into the future by conserving network speeds with 200MB download limits. This will allow future generations of Aussies an internet so fast that all their slashdot posts will be first posts.
Bruce said that Peak Speed is like Peak hour traffic, its when everyone gets on the internet at the same time and the data packets crawl along at on tenth of their normal speed. You can get your downloads to speed up by beeping (pinging) your horn and swearing at the data packet in front of you.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.