The Omnipotence Blog
Extrapolating into the near future of mankind
The Omnipotence Blog takes the view that the key events and decisions that will decide the future of mankind, as advancing technology brings it to the threshold of interaction with extra-terrestrial intelligent beings, are fast approaching. There is no room for fantasy. The social, philosophical and technological pre-cursors of our civilization are already in place and deeply imbedded. We will learn a lot more, but the time scale is too short for us to evolve physically or neurologically. Our instinctive behaviours will be as they are now. The pressure may come from deteriorating conditions on our own planet, or competition from outside, but our period of cosy isolation on Planet Earth is fast coming to an end – and, judging by our current political behavior, we are woefully unprepared. If you are interested in these themes, this blog is for you…
Futuristic Realism to the rescue?
Storytelling, the Eternal Art Storytelling has been prevalent in every civilisation we know of – for instruction, for inspiration, and, of course, for entertainment. Primitive societies told stories of heroism and horror, illustrated by the light of flickering...
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Where is Genomics taking us?
Does medical science offer us the ultimate temptation – eternal life? Not according to Future Timeline, http://futuretimeline.net/blog/2016/10/6-2.htm#.WFloAIXXL4g, which predicts that the upper limit of the human lifespan is just 125 years. Boring! Who are they...
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Before the Andromeda Collision occurs…
The Andromeda Galaxy is more than twice the size of the Milky Way and is heading straight towards us at 400,000 km/hour. It was formed at about the same time as the Milky Way and contains at least twice as many stars. The two galaxies will collide in about 4 billion...
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How do the Supra-Societies survive?
Up there in the Milky Way Central Accounting Office there is a diagram showing the survival span of intelligent civilisations in the Galaxy. It is driven by a massive data base going back almost 6 billion years, and includes many millions of cases. You can slice and...
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Alien intelligent life is out there, doing its thing…
We are wonderful, aren’t we? After just about 200,000 years as an identified species on a planet 4.5 billion years old, 6,000 years of civilization and barely 200 years of practical technological development, we have come to the threshold of exploration of the...
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The March of Technology towards what?
There seems to be a consensus that the pace of technological development will become exponential in the foreseeable future but very little coherent advice on what to do if its effects become seriously destructive for civilisation. Apparently we are expected to assume...
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