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When does the future begin?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Albin7326@suppo.fi⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • solaryth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The future is now, old man

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t have my hoverboard yet. It can’t be the future.

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      • snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • Abucketofpuppies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I quote this way too often around my dad. I think it’s actually starting to upset him

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ![](lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b80879cc-e1e8-4d60 -a112-f7dacfe42878.jpeg)

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    • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “When will it be ‘then’?”

      “Soon”

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    • loopy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My God, I couldn’t remember what that scene that dialog was from. I finally found it and here you have it posted already. 😂 Golden scene

      youtu.be/nRGCZh5A8T4?si=lrYYTS5pyyDs4Zxz

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  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It does not begin.

    It moves ahead of your perceptions.

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    • A_A@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No physical mechanisms predefines future events (or is there one ?).

      So, I could state that the future does not exist yet and the past as ceased to exist.

      in that statement I have a problem with the definition of existence. Does the definition of existence exist itself ? This is (is it ?) more a problem of terminology than philosophy or physics.

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  • MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
    

    The Economist, December 4, 2003, William Gibson

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  • Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now plus the amount of time it takes a photon to move the Planck length.

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    • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      t = t + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds

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      • corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))

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  • algorithmae@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In one second or less

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    • A_A@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Anthropologically speaking this is the best answer. Our brain needs a certain span of time to establish perceived reality.

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  • PassTheChicken@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now. No wait, now. Nope, now.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The future is now, old man!

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh it’s already started. We just didn’t get the good one.

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    • UnicornKitty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What if we actually did? Scary.

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  • sandflavoured@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Later

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do I have time to grab a beer?

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      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Always, buddy. Grab a cold one for me too. Cheers.

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  • Devious_Thoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel like we’re in it lately with the: The lab grown meat, 3D printing building and drones, CRISPR technology, and even something as “basic” as our smartphones.

    At this point the only thing that I’m waiting for is space travel 😎

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    • thelsim@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for your answer! Nice to see something besides a literal interpretation of the question (Though to be fair, it was also the first thing that popped in my head :)
      Anyway, I have to agree with you. A lot of things that seemed almost impossible or ridiculously far-fetched when I was little are now common place or close to becoming reality. And I’m not even that old! (forever in my early thirties *cough* *cough*)

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  • banana_meccanica@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is a human concept that does not exist in reality, the future could for the universe have the same value of the past, the great snake eating its tail

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  • FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The future is only a false perception of tomorrow, an illusion. Today you might say that tomorrow would be the future, but when tomorrow comes, you will do the same. The future does not exist, since time is not S something static, is progressive.

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    • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wow, that’s some impressive writing :)

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      • FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks. I’m not a native English speaker, but my mom was a literature teacher in Kansas, so consequently I had to learn the language (I’m Dominican).

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This reminds me of the sign on the wall of a bar: “Free beer tomorrow.”

    The future never begins. Once it begins, it’s the present. And the present? Well it’s gone already, isn’t it? The past, on the other hand, is full to bursting with absolutely every fucking thing that’s ever been. Only problem? The last does not exist, and never will.

    Basically, we are fucked.

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  • nefonous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never. Not being started is its definition itself

    Unless you make it relative to something else. Now is the future of before, and before was the future of a earlier before

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  • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The future is in the future

    And the past is a victory walk

    Well I need to make you understand, girl

    I’M A MAN NOT A DISCO BALL!

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That happened yesterday weren’t you at the meeting?

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  • folkrav@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, technically, you never truly experience the present, as your brain processing whatever your senses are picking up is taking some time. So, from an individual standpoint, the future is always kind of already there, as you constantly react to things happening a couple microseconds late.

    From a purely etymological point of view, the future is just any period of time that hasn’t happened yet.

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In about 20 minutes

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  • Eso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop.
    Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
    Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
    Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
    Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
    Dark Helmet: When?
    Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
    Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
    Colonel Sandurz: When?
    Dark Helmet: Now.
    Colonel Sandurz: Now?
    Dark Helmet: Now.
    Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
    Dark Helmet: Why?
    Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
    Dark Helmet: When?
    Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
    Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
    Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
    Dark Helmet: How soon?
    
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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At the beep.

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  • Snowman44@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The future was October 21st 2015.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Approximately 5.39 * 10^-44^ seconds from now.

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  • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, it’s gonna be the future soon, and I won’t always be this way. When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away

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  • fury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When you decide

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  • jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Always.

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  • fbmac@lemmy.fbmac.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it began and end long ago, we are in the 3rd era of the after post modern post future

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The future is now, Theres no better time to get in line.

    The future is here, Today, hey.

    The future is now. Lets stand up and fight, we know its right.

    Nothing will stand in our way!

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never. It’s just one of those fantasies like time, space, things.

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