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A Boring Dystopia
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The real question is - if this of a trend that will continue moving forward, and the tech behind it continues to improve, just how broad might such resurrection occur?
Would there be one day in the future that one might recreate an entire city with everyone in it from years ago? Would they know that they are recreated, or just go about their days in a digital twin of the past?
What about an entire planet?
We puzzle over the incompatibility between continuous spacetime in general relatively and the experimentally validated odd behavior of discrete building blocks composing our world - but this pattern is replicated in our own emerging construction of virtual worlds with continuous procedural generation converted to discrete units for tracking state changes by free agents, down to those building blocks changing memory optimization depending on observation/interactions.
Meanwhile we're trending towards a future where the past can be increasingly recreated using emerging technology.
As creepy as some may find the idea of digitally bringing back grandma - the much more pertinent issue that people might want to start thinking about is if one day in the future you're the grandma being brought back.