| Location | 20 minutes into the future |
| Location | 20 minutes into the future |
Me, to my parents, in the 1980s, "How in the world does everyone understand what R2 is saying?"
Me, to my children, in the 2020s, "When it beeps this way it means the driver's not wearing a seatbelt, and it beeps like this if you're driving with the trunk open, and it beeps like this to warn you the roads might be icy, and..."
Some 1960s scientists associated power consumption with technological advancement. That means two things. 1. crypto mining and llms are a great way to show off our advancement, bro. 2. A discovery of a Dyson sphere would be evidence of E.T.s: Extra TESCREALists.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-dyson-spheres-astronomers-potential-candidates.html
There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilizations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts by them to communicate their existence, for example, through radio broadcasts. Another is to look for evidence of them visiting the solar system. And a third option is to look for signs of large-scale engineering projects in space.