Even the old series?

That would be awesome. You'd see all that humanity would develop in that time and you'd be able to traverse the stars

Yeah of course. I mean you don't have to for the new series but its nice background to get where the writers based their work from.

Even if by mid century we have nanobots and immortal bodies and can survive extreme environments I still wouldn't know what to do with all that time.

you would never get to a point where you would't have anything to discover

I tried watching some of the Tom Baker era episodes, but got tired of them fast.

Bad news is you would run into a wall of knowledge. You would inevitably get to a point where you don't have enough storage space to store all known information because the amount of matter required to store all information would be so large it's mass would collapse space into a black hole.

This is where the hive mind comes into play.

we could store our collective memories in a huge, planet sized computer.

Thus avoiding the limitations of our feeble brain.

You can either attempt to force a hive mind like the Borg or have a hive mind like we have today but better. Basically using a machine-human species that can unlink itself or link itself to the massive neural network. The most efficient way of doing this is like the Borg but I think the most beneficial way would be to respect one units individuality and creativity.

a machine-human species that can unlink itself or link itself to the massive neural network.

This is less about brain limitations or planet sized computers.

Inevitably you will run into a limit on how much information you can store on matter, even if you get 1 bit per atom. If you want to store all data in the universe you would need that much matter and you would collapse that region of space into a black hole because of all the mass. There just wouldn't be a computer capable of storing all that information.

However the good news is if you have your entire body encoding data like that you could have memory capable of spanning a few hundred billion years. That is still assuming its possible to encode 1 bit per atom.

I'm not familiar with the Borg, since i don't watch Star Trek, but this is what i meant:

I get what you mean, but since there is much useless information in the universe, I think we can store the important stuff and philter the useless stuff out.

The Borg are basically an imperialistic dictatorship hive mind with one central queen who is the culmination of the minds. They find advanced civilizations and assimilate them into the hive and take in their information. There are no individuals.

asically no information is truly insignificant.

You will still die..... but perhaps not for billions or trillions of years.

in a silly looking space ship.

Machine-Humans would't need the information on what is the best kind of rock to crack walnuts with (for example).

I don't think the human mind can bear such a long time.

What about placing a computer in our brain that help we storing memory, doing void..?

In my opinion, it is making ourselves computers, and losing our humanity.

About the "hive-mind" : I fear that the humanity will feel lonely. Being together and having divergent opinions make us evolve, and give us a unique culture. I feel that the major progress to do is in education, and the important is to build a "bright" future.

About the "hive-mind" : I fear that the humanity will feel lonely. Being together and having divergent opinions make us evolve, and give us a unique culture. I feel that the major progress to do is in education, and the important is to build a "bright" future.

You are discarding the possibility of "aliens image"

No not at all. If you think of what technology is it is simply an extension of our current senses. By combining ourselves with our technology we ENHANCE those things that makes us human and improve upon them.

But wouldn't we just be alone together?

"together alone"

That reminded me of an article on a Finnish science magazine that told of a professor in some university (can't for the life of me remember who it was) who wired a sonar to his brain and was actually able to "see" his surroundings in perfect darkness with some mental training. He described it as "tickling" sensation in his brain.