The future is now, old man
I don’t have my hoverboard yet. It can’t be the future.
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I fail to see much increased risk over a traditional skateboard TBH
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The hoverboard from back to the future is never that high off the ground. It is the one I’ve been waiting for. There is no other.
I quote this way too often around my dad. I think it’s actually starting to upset him
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My God, I couldn’t remember what that scene that dialog was from. I finally found it and here you have it posted already. 😂 Golden scene
“When will it be ‘then’?”
“Soon”
It does not begin.
It moves ahead of your perceptions.
That said everything has already happened all at once and is over. Our sensual reality refuses to see that. We are too small to see it.
No physical mechanisms predefines future events (or is there one ?).
So, I could state that the future does not exist yet and the past as ceased to exist.
in that statement I have a problem with the definition of existence. Does the definition of existence exist itself ? This is (is it ?) more a problem of terminology than philosophy or physics.
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.The Economist, December 4, 2003, William Gibson
Calculus is just starting to become general knowledge.
In one second or less
Anthropologically speaking this is the best answer. Our brain needs a certain span of time to establish perceived reality.
Now plus the amount of time it takes a photon to move the Planck length.
t_furure_min = t_now + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds
long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))
Fixed-precision arithmetic would probably be more appropriate here, but since I’m lazy, long double works. Although I am curious now if a long double has sufficient precision to give a meaningful value for this.
I feel like at some point, you’d need arbitrary precision and arbitrarily-sized real numbers in order to meaningfully represent it.
Now. No wait, now. Nope, now.
The future is now, old man!
The future begins in the very next moment after the present.
It’s a constantly moving boundary, always just ahead of the current moment.
Philosophically or metaphorically, “the future” might be considered any time beyond the immediate present, whether that’s a second, an hour, a year, or a millennium from now.Oh it’s already started. We just didn’t get the good one.
What if we actually did? Scary.
It is a human concept that does not exist in reality, the future could for the universe have the same value of the past, the great snake eating its tail
I feel like we’re in it lately with: the lab grown meat, 3D printing building and drones, CRISPR technology, and even something as “basic” as our smartphones.
At this point the only thing that I’m waiting for is space travel 😎
Edit: ugh, just read the rest of the responses and people are such bummers
Thank you for your answer! Nice to see something besides a literal interpretation of the question (Though to be fair, it was also the first thing that popped in my head :)
Anyway, I have to agree with you. A lot of things that seemed almost impossible or ridiculously far-fetched when I was little are now common place or close to becoming reality. And I’m not even that old! (forever in my early thirties *cough* *cough*)
Later
Do I have time to grab a beer?
Always, buddy. Grab a cold one for me too. Cheers.
The future is only a false perception of tomorrow, an illusion. Today you might say that tomorrow would be the future, but when tomorrow comes, you will do the same. The future does not exist, since time is not something static, is progressive.
