Writing in the extreme future.

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Writing in the extreme future.

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Has anyone had any experience writing in the extreme future. I am not talking one thousand or even one million years in the future. I am talking about tens of millions of years in the future such as the premise for a story short I have called Farest Futures (below for opening paragraph. Sorry its kinda rough)?

..In the blink of eye one of Joe's picobrains had flashed that message over the universe. It had been 42 trillion years since the Big Bang. All 10,000 of Joe's picobrains converged on the location. The first time in millions of years that all his picobrains where this close. He was a product of the universe, the top of the evolution chain. He was all the species of the universe and yet none of them, the only sentient being left. Billions of years ago the last great puzzle revealed itself a series of subatomic clues scattered over the universe. Space Travel, FLT, Time Travel, Teleportation, Cybernetics, Cloning, Hyperspace, Alternate Planes, Immortality all had progressed from fantasy, to pipe dreams, to reality, to being anarchic items of a ancient past...

Discussion started by Orion Darkwood , on 15 December 09:59 AM

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Orion Darkwood,

@SteveV once finished I am going to post it here as well as to my blog

Tuesday, 27 December 2011 05:07

Steve V,

correction "way beyond the limits of knowledge"

Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:23

Steve V,

I'm not trying to quibble, but I don't believe in Ultimate Questions nor Ultimate Answers, just true and false answers to meaningful questions. The rest is all way limits of knowledge. Even some super smart collective mind, provided that it simply does not devolve into contemplating its own navel, will only find more question after answering the old ones.

Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:22

Orion Darkwood,

@SteveV that could be a whole novel within itself. As for the short story the flashbacks could be added that ease the reader into a future where their is little if any reference points. As far as the ending without giving to much away the galactic consciousness finds out that the end of millions of years of finding teasing clues of the ultimate question (Why is the purpose of the universe) its answer is our distant past.

Wednesday, 21 December 2011 05:43

Steve V,

Here is a possible way to look at the possible conflicts created by the notion of collective consciousness. The unconscious connection if a separate entity. Telepathy between individuals is a form of communication that can be tuned out so the individual can still think. The collective mind directs things at an automatic unconscious level except in times of stress or emergency the individual can make direct contact for guidance.

Roger's idea could be done by using flash backs. The flash backs could be to the past lives of significant individuals who contributed or tried to block the creation of the collective mind. Any story needs a conflict so the basic conflict flashed back to in past lives could still be unresolved. In end the collective mind gives up and decides to start over by promoting the evolution of a new sentient being. Gosh, I think I just gave away a whole story.

Friday, 16 December 2011 15:09

Orion Darkwood,

@RogerVenk,

The story does not progress any in the future beyond the point it starts. Without giving too much away let's just say this point in future is the starting point of the distant past (yes it also answers the question of what was before the big bang).

Friday, 16 December 2011 11:50

Orion Darkwood,

@SteveV,

Interesting thought and would fit within the overall goal of the story which is regarding the meaning of life and the universe.

Friday, 16 December 2011 11:49

RogerVenk,

Fascinating......would it be fair to say you would have to write reversing through the future to explain the end point of where you start the story. Meaning this is the concept of the extreme 'what is to come,' do you explain back how you arrived at that distant point, of is it possible to continue on from there to even farther reaches. I guess anything is possible when the universe folds and is limitless within our perception.

Friday, 16 December 2011 11:01

Steve V,

Orion, short answer: no. Here is my long answer. The highly prized free thought requires free will and free will permits the possibility of error and is the basis of the concept of good and evil. Without free will there can be no good and no evil, just random actions. In that case sentient beings will always make mistakes and commit acts of evil. The more power one has the greater the evil. It would be interesting to see you construct a system in which all that is somehow mitigated if not eliminated.

Friday, 16 December 2011 04:43

Orion Darkwood,

SteveV,

Interesting thought.. however in a dystopian future freedom and free-thought are highly prized. However in a Utopian future would they be people willing to hold on to said ideas in the face of the literal garden of Eden where every need and want is provided.

Or do you believe that humankind is incapable of a Utopian future?

Friday, 16 December 2011 04:26

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