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Assuming that nothing unexpected and dramatic occurs that changes everything, we can see trends to give us some general ideas about the future. For example - if Moore's Law continues then we can expect that every computer in the year 2100 will be more powerful than the sum of all the computers on the planet today. That may be hard to imagine now what that will be like, but we can look backwards to the year 1960 and realize that the laptop computers of today represent more than the sum of all the computers on the planet back then.
Assuming that nothing unexpected and dramatic occurs that changes everything, we can see trends to give us some general ideas about the future. For example - if Moore's Law continues then we can expect that every computer in the year 2100 will be more powerful than the sum of all the computers on the planet today. That may be hard to imagine now what that will be like, but we can look backwards to the year 1960 and realize that the laptop computers of today represent more than the sum of all the computers on the planet back then.
We also have to note at this point that we are using our technology to look for signs of intelligent life on other planets and so far we have found nothing, which is disturbing. The elements to create life have existed in the universe for 10 billion years. Life on this planet has been around for 3.8 billion years leaving the possibility that something out there could be 6 billion years ahead of us. If that were the case they would have had plenty of time to colonize our entire galaxy and their electromagnetic signals would be everywhere.
But they aren't. All we hear from space is the silence of random noise. What does this mean?
# We could be the first life in our galaxy to get to this level.
* Advanced life in the Universe is at least extremely rare.
* When life reaches a level shortly beyond where we are it usually destroys itself.
* The galaxy is teaming with advanced life and we just don't have the technology to find it yet.
* Some other reason not listed here.
=== Testable Outcomes and Values ===
=== Testable Outcomes and Values ===