Jay Walker
Chrono Cadet
That is true. I can't argue that example is kind of flimsy. I just thought it was neat.Digital cameras were developed from the 1960's to 1980's. The first consumer models were available in the 1990's.
He probably was describing the future, but you can't prove it because one could simply argue that he made a reasonable prediction based on the 1990-2000 digital camera market.
However, that is what makes this story very hard to tell. It isn't so much one thing or another. For the most part, there are two or three concepts that have convinced me. Like, the accumulative factor - When you take all of the tech that he talked about that is inevitable. For instance, the iPhone I think was inevitable. If someone else invents the Iphone it might have been called something else, but that a smartphone was going to happen either way, but before it was invented, not a lot of people could envision a device like that. Not even the apple team knew exactly what the final product would be but certainly not what it could be 10 generations down the road. "
But John did see these emergent technologies a lot further than anyone at the time. For instance, the optical atomic clocks he spoke about. A handful of people would even know what a cesium atomic clock was, and a much, much smaller handful of people knew the possibility of using optical feature that would be even more accurate than the cesium, and most definitlely no one would be crazy enough to think an optical atomic clock would be small enough to be portable and fit inside a small box that could fit into a car, let alone 6 OF THEM!
No friggin way, lol.
There is also an accumulative factor of quantum mechanics that gives credence to his claims. I say that because there are two quantum concepts I found very interesting. One, being his explanation of MWI removing causality paradox from time-traveling. Not an original idea. Then there is the concept of being in between two rotating black holes. Without going too deeply into it, theoretically could allow for backwards time-travel.
Why are these two concepts important? Because, as far as I can tell are not talked about together. For example, when asked about time-travel backwards, most theoretical physicists will say that causality won't allow it to exist. However, if you ask them what is possible between two colliding black holes, they will tell you about the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.
So, jump forward to today. I watch a Youtube short from Rogan's show featuring Neil. Neil offers the Pinocchio paradox as a way to explain self-referential statements and how they interfere with causality. Neil's example is basically a version of the Liar's Paradox. In other words, you can't have an effect on yourself before you have that effect. TT_0 negates the liar's paradox.
Why would this random dude on a message board be giving all of this away for free?
I could list examples all day but I have a little bit of a life, so... Maybe later if anyone cares.