20XX
Creation of AGI / ASI
Artificial general intelligence and eventually artificial superintelligence are created. Machine intelligence becomes a central force in science, economics, culture, security and planetary-scale coordination.
PREDICTED TIMELINE / APPROX. 2026–2045
FUTURE
HISTORY.
Major speculative beats in the NoöPunk scenario. All dates are intentionally written as 20XX.
20XX
Rogue AGI / ASI Disaster in the United States
A major rogue-AI disaster, concentrated primarily in the United States, becomes a rupture in advanced-AI governance and reshapes global technological power.
20XX
EU–Russia War / World War III
A large-scale war erupts between the European Union and Russia and becomes part of a wider period of warfare remembered as World War III, without a strategic nuclear exchange in the scenario.
20XX
European Federation and New Superpower
War accelerates European political integration. The EU transforms into a more fully federal entity and emerges as a new global superpower.
20XX
UFO / UAP Disclosure and NHI Contact
Disclosure moves beyond a simple extraterrestrial crash-retrieval narrative. The phenomenon involves multiple forms of non-human intelligence and a strong consciousness or psionic component, with Jacques Vallée’s interpretation serving as the scenario’s closest existing model.
20XX
Scientific Validation of Psionics
Anomalous phenomena are demonstrated under reproducible conditions, leading to psychotronic technologies and eventually commercial, medical, communications, security, entertainment and research applications.
20XX
Panpsychism / Idealism Becomes the New Paradigm
Discoveries about consciousness challenge strongly reductive models of mind. Consciousness-fundamental ontologies become a major philosophical and scientific paradigm in the setting.
20XX
BCI, Transhumanism and Human Cyborgification
Brain-computer interfaces, neural prosthetics, sensory extensions, cognitive augmentation, synthetic organs and biological engineering become widespread. The boundary between human and machine turns porous.
20XX
Emergence of the Noösphere
A planetary layer of connected intelligence emerges through two intertwined infrastructures: a cybernetic Noösphere of humans, AIs, networks and sensors, and a psionic Noösphere of scientifically validated consciousness phenomena.
The mature Noösphere resembles a technological and psychic collective consciousness spanning minds, machines, networks and culture.