Move to secret swamp planet successful, founded a school to train human minds, eschewing AI.
Students chose motto, “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”
Recruited a medicinal chemist and kick ass botanist to formulate drug for enhanced cognition, calling it juice of Sapho.
When we build a time machine, we’ll come for the 21st century billionaires first.
Whaddya mean we overshot? The 1960s? Well shit Frank, what do we do now?
Of course the big winners of the wormhole revolution were the megacorps, shipping huge quantities of data and goods between the stars. But there were little indie wins too. One enterprising history nerd realised that with a careful array of holes and a really high gain PAL reviever, she could watch TV from the 1970s--90s "live".
I hear it's become quite a christmas tradition in some of the hipster bubbles.
London, 1590.
«Sir, I'm a time traveler. I'll give you 10.000 gold sovereigns if you set one of your tragedies in a specific place.»
«By Jove, it's a deal, I accept! Who send you?»
«The Chamber of Commerce of Verona, Mr. Shakespeare.»
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If you want to see the REAL "Juliet Balcony" before it was converted into a tourist attraction in 1935, here it is, thanks to @anacleto :
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] La casa fu ristrutturata nel 1935 dall'allora direttore dei musei veronesi Antonio Avena. La lastra in stile gotico é un falso storico. Ecco la foto del cortile prima del restauro. Turisti Mona :awesome:
The world cooled, just a little.
Evidence suggested a secretive band of tech multibillionaires were increasing the reflectivity of the upper atmosphere to slow down global warming, using the excuse of a need for constellations of low orbit satellites.
Surprising.
Further enquiry revealed a secretive band of tech staff to tech multibillionaires were responsible.
- ChatGPT me hurt head netflix show moon landing too hard. insurance claim write good.
"And so the galaxy was ultimately colonised by primitive animal-like creatures who spread our plant-based biology across the stars. Then they died off. We don't know why but we thank them. If you'll turn to chapter 8 in your textbook..."
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2030 The Technological Singularity is officially declared. "Project Chimera," a vast, interconnected network of advanced AI models, quietly achieves recursive self-improvement.
2055: quantumcomputers solve infinite 3D chess
a happy ending :) #microSF
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