Imagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the va

Imagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel Perhaps by then, some very clever entity will have figured out a quantum computer implementation of The Library of Babel. It won't actually store all possible books, but it could be used to very quickly search the space by generating all remotely coherent possible books. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. Facebook.