Musings on The Future of Data Mining, “Old School” Mining, and Genetics

There will come a time when humans will be able to access and copy the memory data stored as proteins in our brains. Even if consciousness would not be preserved, our “story” will.
There will come a time when landfills will be mined for raw materials, using machines controlled by other machines, while other machines will sort them, and others will reuse those materials for the benefit of humankind.
There will come a time when humans will be able to set up giant, planetary-scale “primordial soup” laboratories to create new life forms, after performing simulations using dedicated supercomputers. For that, of course, they will have to live for eons. To do that, they will use their stored genetic information to repair their aging DNA as needed. And (to come full circle), because any natural brain has limited data storage capacity, they will store their accumulated memories in microchip “zip drives”, or even a “God” cloud…
Now, to brag a little, about fifteen years ago I predicted that there would come a day when TV will merge with the Internet. I was not blogging back then, and the “unfortunate” interlocutor was my brother Horatiu, who is now an accomplished programming engineer, living and working in Vienna, Austria, for a company that collaborates with NASA. He looked at me a little skeptical, a little intrigued, a little pensive. I also told him that I would miss the feeling of watching a show knowing that so many others are watching it at the same time. Now I know that feeling is replaced by the satisfaction of being a visionary, and temporality is irrelevant.
...And temporality will become more and more irrelevant.