Can you know everything

But with current computing power, that would take more time than the universe has to offer. Computational power is a practical limitation we can blame for everything from unreliable weather forecasts to shoddy logistics : once you try to optimise an itinerary linking more than a few thousand destinations, it becomes impossible to compute.

Existing subscribers, please log in with your email address to link your account access. Paid quarterly. Then they purchase rights to , or more words and phrases at a time, updating their deals every hour. My son, now almost a teen, assumes the new technology as a given, and grows with it. His peers also like being part of the collective mind. On MySpace. On fanfiction.

At the online game site Second Life, people build their own characters for a digital world, and make up their own adventures. Linden Labs, the owners of Second Life, originally tried to control the game, but the players rebelled and took control. Then they sell them for real-world money. Linden contents itself with controlling the currency, releasing additional land, and watching the adventures roll along. Across the Web, people build networks and communities at maximum velocity.

E-mail is too slow, so communication is IM—in pairs, in groups—with multiple conversations on one screen. Love gets coached, in real time—a kind of Wikipedia for emotional life. It all improves as it grows, and look where it is growing now: In China, IM provider Tencent claims million registered users, 18 million of them chatting online at any given moment.

Their new social-networking site, a kind of MySpace for China, though still in its testing phase, quickly filled an experimental limit of 20 million users. Geography has already surrendered to the global brain, and language is the next barrier to fall. What the printers did by publishing translations of a few classical texts in the 16th century has its corollary in creating a common worldwide conversation in the 21st.

And it is one with mighty pattern-finding software and open-source logic that sweeps the system for whatever we then seek—illumination, music, sex, revenge, surprise—beckoning and bringing it without stop.

What, ultimately, can we say about a future like this? We should begin with the most basic things: We will still be human. We will yet propel ourselves to connect. We will want change and transformation as much as ever. We will want to change others. Algorithms will do this to and for us on an unimaginable scale. Search will take us irrevocably into a fevered collective intelligence. This will seem normal—to both my son and me.

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The following URL makes the case for this theorem quite clearly in fairly understandable and unequivocal terms, without resort to use of esoteric reasoning or heavy duty mathematics. By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

Google Search. Post Your Opinion. Create New Poll. Sign In Sign Up. Add a New Topic. Will humans ever be able to know everything in the universe? Big Bang , Universe. It's easy just learn everything Annoy the boys by saying Yes.

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