The future is now, old man
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I don't have my hoverboard yet. It can't be the future.
I quote this way too often around my dad. I think it's actually starting to upset him
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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
“When will it be ‘then’?”
“Soon”
It does not begin.
It moves ahead of your perceptions.
That said everything has already happened all at once and is over. Our sensual reality refuses to see that. We are too small to see it.
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.
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
The Economist, December 4, 2003, William Gibson
Calculus is just starting to become general knowledge.
In one second or less
Anthropologically speaking this is the best answer. Our brain needs a certain span of time to establish perceived reality.
Now plus the amount of time it takes a photon to move the Planck length.
t_furure_min = t_now + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds
long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))
Fixed-precision arithmetic would probably be more appropriate here, but since I'm lazy, long double works. Although I am curious now if a long double has sufficient precision to give a meaningful value for this.
I feel like at some point, you'd need arbitrary precision and arbitrarily-sized real numbers in order to meaningfully represent it.
Now. No wait, now. Nope, now.
The future is now, old man!
The future begins in the very next moment after the present.
It's a constantly moving boundary, always just ahead of the current moment.
Philosophically or metaphorically, "the future" might be considered any time beyond the immediate present, whether that's a second, an hour, a year, or a millennium from now.
Oh it's already started. We just didn't get the good one.
What if we actually did? Scary.
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
Later
Do I have time to grab a beer?
Always, buddy. Grab a cold one for me too. Cheers.
I feel like we're in it lately with: 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 😎
Edit: ugh, just read the rest of the responses and people are such bummers
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*)
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
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 something static, is progressive.
Wow, that's some impressive writing :)
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).
That happened yesterday weren't you at the meeting?
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!
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 past doesn’t exist, and never will.
Basically, we are fucked.
At the beep.
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.
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?When you decide
Always.
The future was October 21st 2015.
it began and end long ago, we are in the 3rd era of the after post modern post future
Always right now.
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
It depends on what you define the present as.