Year Million premieres tonight on National Geographic Channel at 9/8c (check local listings).Say you retire with $1 million in your retirement fund. "The only pity is that we won't be here to see it," he added The world of year one million will certainly be interesting, Greene said. "The ideas we put into stories reflect the world we live in," Soule said. Fellow comic book author Warren Ellis, Soule said, has examined the issue of post-humanism - the future evolution of humanity - in his work. In Jules Verne's time, science fiction reflected submarine technology when comic book heroes the X-Men and the Hulk first appeared, their stories mirrored anxieties over nuclear radiation.
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The TV series "Star Trek," for example, influenced the design of gadgets such as flip phones and the concept of touch screens, he said.īut speculation via science fiction also reflects contemporary events, Soule said. Soule added that even though science fiction isn't often right in the details, its influence is felt in many areas. Those kinds of questions can come up even in superhero-themed books, though science fiction is where Soule said people can think through "far-out, crazy stuff" and its implications - which, he said, is part of the job of the science fiction genre.
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This would mean humans would still be solving problems, but these would likely be different problems, such as figuring out the role of artificial intelligence or what it means to be human in a world that is dominated by technology, he said. "Take humanity, and it's accelerated far beyond where we are today, where most of the technological problems today are kind of solved." "The year 1 million concept - it's like an abstract," Soule said. One of these is Charles Soule, who has written several comics for Marvel and his own science fiction in the comic book series "Letter 44" (Oni Press, 2014), about a near-future mission to investigate an alien anomaly in the asteroid belt. "Now we know it's just happenstance," Greene said.īeyond scientists, others involved with the show include science fiction writers, whose job it is to dream up future worlds. For instance, German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who was born in 1571 and died in 1630, spent decades trying to figure out why the Earth is located 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from the sun. In some cases, scientists may find that the very questions they were asking were the wrong ones. Now we can address questions of the origin of universe," which wasn't possible with earlier physics, Greene said. "Einstein comes and gives us general relativity in 1915, and with it, a new description of gravity. One example is Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. "With every chapter we complete, we ask questions we couldn't even formulate because we didn't have the concepts," he added.
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That will be far from the end of the story, though. "We'll truly understand fundamental forces the basic ingredients of matter, and unite all the equations that describe into some kind of unified theory."
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"I guess my feeling is there are certain chapters in the story of physics we will complete," Greene said. In physics, humans may solve certain big problems, but that will likely only lead to new questions, he said. "I could see a new kind of hybrid species out of the biological and the synthetic." "We're already finding, on much shorter timescales, distinction between biological beings and artificial beings is starting to blur," he said. In the future, Greene said, there's a good possibility that humans will find a way to merge with their machines. Greene said he doesn't think humans 1 million years from now will look much like people do now, and he said their lives will be so different that humans today wouldn't recognize them.
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He has also explored the mathematics that could help explain how the universe has more than three dimensions. Greene has written several books on string theory, a theoretical physics model that suggests the universe is made up of miniscule, one-dimensional strings. īrian Greene, a professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University in New York City, is one of the famed scientists featured in the series. In six episodes, the show explores the possibility of merging technology with the human body, the potential to drastically extend lifespans, the effects of virtual reality, the use of computers to merge human minds, the availability of new sources of energy and the possibilities of spreading humanity into outer space. Premiering today (May 15), the new National Geographic Channel series "Year Million" investigates what humans might look like far into the future.