On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:36:54PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > Eugen...beware of the words "can't", "never"...and their > families....it might happen....did someone in, say 1750, seriously
I mean, we provably can't, if it's a nonlinear system. About the only thing which could is direct access via traversable wormholes, but this either means causality violation or alternative realities (i.e. not our future). > imagine our style of life now, would be possible? Did I imagine, even That's not predicting the future. It need quite a lot more details than this. I notice you seem to understand something quite different under future forecasts, so the question is not even well-defined. > thirty years ago, that I would instantly communicate my thoughts with > someone far away, whom I have never met? > > I "never" say that something will never happen!...that's part of the > wonder of life for me. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
