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After the information age, what could be next?

Technology has this innate momentum (or intertia) to continue developing until the hypothetical end when the infinite game of life as we know it reaches its final destination. People have different guesses on what that end is or when it might happen. Though we don't have a date, a religion like Christianity has one answer of what it would look like when it happens. Not sure I've seen if there's a scientific answer for when the world will end due to factors like global warming, or the expansion of the universe, or something else. Technology Is Heading Somewhere If the question is framed as, " What does technology want? " - that assumes that technology has some kind of an inherent bias to move towards something that it wants.  Kevin Kelly wrote a book with that question as the title . And this video ted.com is worth watching to get the full context. What is the conclusion? Kevin Kelly alludes to what technology wants in a few statements like these: So...