Time Travel & the Human Future
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The standard futurist focus on AI singularities and space exploration and colonization misses what may be an even more profound and decisive technological horizon ahead: becoming a timefaring civilization. Physically allowable in Einstein’s universe, the main barriers to time travel are philosophical and psychological. Time travel trespasses on powerful taboos, including confusions about free will and paradox. These confusions have historically led even some top physicists to invent rules that might prevent the headache-causing weirdness that traveling back in time would allow.
Instead of shying away in fear and confusion, Wargo confronts the weirdness head on, exploring the technological possibilities—some of which, believe it or not, are imminent—as well as the very strange social and cultural implications of becoming timefaring.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
1. Paradoxes, Assigned Paths, & Other Time Travel Fallacies
2. “You’ve Got C-mail!”: Quantum Servers, Chronophones, & Other Modes of Transtemporal Communication
3. The Tesseractuality in the Room: Wormholes, Timeships, & UFOs
4. The Spacelike Calls to Me: The Challenges of Chrononavigation
5. Cosmic Circle Time: The Universe as a Time Loop
6. A Sound of One Hand Clapping: Meeting Your Older/Younger Self
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