>>12632350The futuristic utopian myth of expansion and advancement is just that, anon. A myth.
The periodic table of elements is very probably almost complete. Our knowledge of the universe and how it operates is almost complete, as far as humans can take it. If it can be taken much further at all.
Unless and until we can figure out the speed of light, travel to and from planet earth will take centuries, if not millenia. Getting off Earth to colonize other planets will take tens of thousands of years. So many millenia that the heat death of the universe is considerably closer than before, relative to how soon we can go colonize.
There's just.. not too much further upwards to go, anon. This is about it. We'll get little gewgaws to be our phones and computers and TVs to have with us at all times, with batteries allowing them to last virtually forever, but that's about it. We'll get medical care that can virtually keep us immortal so long as we keep maintaining and feeding our bodies. But that's about it. At that point it's not really "progress" so much as logarithmically overpopulating the universe.
