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.
See “Becoming Timefaring” on Medium, featuring art by David Metcalfe:
Part 1: Assigned Walkways and other Time Travel Fallacies
Part 2: Chronophone Calls and C-mails from the Future
Part 3: Timewrinkles, Timeships, and the Tesseractuality in the Room
