If we were far enough from earth, could we see the dinosaurs alive?

Negative Nelly strikes again.

If you have the technology to travel 65 million light years from earth by folding space instantly, you also have the technology to look back at Earth and read a postage stamp.

Why? Because the technology to travel in that fashion would mean you have total control of matter, energy, and inertia. You could probably also just will yourself back into time.

This is the problem with trying to constrain future science with today's technology: You end up with Star Trek.

Wait, I like Star Trek. What is wrong with it?

Everything.

Look at where technology is headed. In less than 50 years, wireless technology will merge with biotechnology - and humans will become partial cyborgs. We will have technology that extends our lives, gives us immune system control, biological monitoring and alarms, and the ability to manually eliminate dysfunctions like cancer as easily as you turn wifi on in your phone.

People will become totally connected. We will no longer text or call each other. We will think to each other. Not words or sounds or pictures. Thoughts. Those will be transmitted to whomever you like whenever you like, and you will receive other thoughts and become one with a collective sea of thought.

The processing power amplified by organic technology combined with our connectedness will accelerate learning and cooperation to the point that our current rate of development will seem like we are moving in slow motion.

Shortly after these inventions, we realize the ability to put our minds into machines. And we do so, and by doing this, we further expand our thinking and intelligence by orders of magnitude and begin to develop at a ridiculous rate.

No human body will ever sit in a leather chair tapping on a screen to fire the phasers.

Instead, a silvery egg shape will simply appear where it wants to and when it wants to. It will make whatever appendages it needs. Its energy will be generated within itself and collected from around it by manipulating atoms and quarks. It will contain as much of us as want to be with it.

Eventually, having learned to do this, we quickly learn that our minds can be layered into the fabric of quantum foam in the background of space-time itself, and we join into one mind and with the universe until we are no longer separate from it, but we have become it.

We are now God incarnate.

That is our future.

So, yes, you will be able to see dinosaurs from far away, or close up. If you live long enough to see the rapid rise of humanity from animal to machine.

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