content: If humans get to the point where we're calculating all problems order 2^n and below instantly, or at least faster than we need the result... does that mean the universe has reached some sort of equilibrium? I feel like as computers are replacing more and more tasks that time as we know it is slowing down. What if we're left with only n!, n^n problems? We might think "forget it, we can't do it cap'n. WE DON'T HAVE THE POWER!"  What's crazy is, if you people have watched Nova's documentaries on physics, this ending sounds just like those. And if it is.... that means we've reached some of these theoretically existent physics scenarios. Which is cool, but that was quite truly as far as humans could even stretch their imagination - and that shit was OUT there back then, that's what was so interesting about it. But if we reach that can we even contribute to the world anymore? Even as a "cog" in the great AI we might still boil down to nothing more than a cell in RAM, simply pinged at the precise moment we we're calculated to be pinged. Crazier still, we could have calculated that that was going to happen a long time ago and then we'd know we never had another choice. Or.... can that not be calculated and what we have is an unsolvable problem. When I put that last idea in juxtaposition with the physics documentaries the seem the same. We'd need more energy than is in the universe to do some of these things i.e. travel faster than the speed of light. I think that was one example. And I'm pretty sure the way Einstein determined that one can simply not travel faster than the speed of light was with this calculation. So if these two things are the same, what does that mean? We used up all the energy in the universe (if this were to happen that is)?