In the future...

In the future...Police will not carry firearms, however the rest of humanity will be forced to crawl when in public to prevent disturbances.

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In the future... Credit will be the only legitimate form of monetary exchange. In spite of this children from third world countries will still be able to exchange sexual favors for food.

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In the future... AI and CGI will have advanced to the point where Sims characters will believe we are there avatars. Strangely enough a significant percent of humans will agree.

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In the future... dogs and cats will be acceptable means of sustenance if they are consumed in the form of hot pockets or frozen burritos.

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In the future... Aliens will visit earth to collect the royalties on every use of their likeness since the Roswell crash of 1947. Essentially destroying earth's economy they will stay for two days at Disney World, and growing bored, will promptly depart.

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In the future... racial profiling will not exist due to the far sweeping and highly influential "Everyone Is A Suspect" Act.

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In the future... the abortion will be illegal, however the elimination of women whose projected value to society due to breeding productivity will be.

In the future... (Sept 11th)

In the future... any act of terrorism will be punishable by lifetime incarceration coupled with corporal punishment unless said acts are televised on a pay per view basis.

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In the future... All food will be prepackaged, the same will be required of relationships.

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In the future... shopping will be a full contact major league and olympic sport, obesity levels however will reach 75% worldwide.

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In the future... the concept of love will no longer exist ironically it will still be a marketed commodity.

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In the future...

Computers will rule the humanity not because they took over merely due to the fact that we gave up trying to do so ourselves.

Suppose, however, that God decided that the universe should finish up in a state of high order but that it didn’t

matter what state it started in. At early times the universe would probably be in a disordered state. This would

mean that disorder would decrease with time. You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and

jumping back onto the table. However, any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a

universe in which disorder decreased with time. I shall argue that such beings would have a psychological

arrow of time that was backward. That is, they would remember events in the future, and not remember events

in their past. When the cup was broken, they would remember it being on the table, but when it was on the

table, they would not remember it being on the floor

Up to the

beginning of this century people believed in an absolute time. That is, each event could be labeled by a number

called “time” in a unique way, and all good clocks would agree on the time interval between two events.

However, the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer, no matter how he was

moving, led to the theory of relativity – and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique

absolute time. Instead, each observer would have his own measure of time as recorded by a clock that he

carried: clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree. Thus time became a more personal

concept, relative to the observer who measured it.

When one tried to unify gravity with quantum mechanics, one had to introduce the idea of “imaginary” time.

Imaginary time is indistinguishable from directions in space. If one can go north, one can turn around and head

south; equally, if one can go forward in imaginary time, one ought to be able to turn round and go backward.

This means that there can be no important difference between the forward and backward directions of

imaginary time. On the other hand, when one looks at “real” time, there’s a very big difference between the

forward and backward directions, as we all know. Where does this difference between the past and the future

come from? Why do we remember the past but not the future?

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. More precisely, as explained earlier,

the laws of science are unchanged under the combination of operations (or symmetries) known as C, P, and T.

(C means changing particles for antiparticles. P means taking the mirror image, so left and right are

interchanged. And T means reversing the direction of motion of all particles: in effect, running the motion

backward.) The laws of science that govern the behavior of matter under all normal situations are unchanged

under the combination of the two operations C and P on their own. In other words, life would be just the same

for the inhabitants of another planet who were both mirror images of us and who were made of antimatter,

rather than matter.

If the laws of science are unchanged by the combination of operations C and P, and also by the combination C,

P, and T, they must also be unchanged under the operation T alone. Yet there is a big difference between the

forward and backward directions of real time in ordinary life. Imagine a cup of water falling off a table and

breaking into pieces on the floor. If you take a film of this, you can easily tell whether it is being run forward or

backward. If you run it backward you will see the pieces suddenly gather themselves together off the floor and

jump back to form a whole cup on the table. You can tell that the film is being run backward because this kind

of behavior is never observed in ordinary life. If it were, crockery manufacturers would go out of business.

The explanation that is usually given as to why we don’t see broken cups gathering themselves together off the

floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics. This says that

in any closed system disorder, or entropy, always increases with time. In other words, it is a form of Murphy’s

law: things always tend to go wrong! An intact cup on the table is a state of high order, but a broken cup on the

floor is a disordered state. One can go readily from the cup on the table in the past to the broken cup on the

floor in the future, but not the other way round.

First off: time is an arbitrary human construct...