Sometimes you don't want your Mac OS X Mountain Lion powered computer to go to sleep, here's a nice little trick how to temporary prevent a Mac from going into a sleep mode.
If you need, besides major accounts, an extra account with limited access to data, you can add Windows 8 Guest account. The process is almost the same as in Windows 7.
Speculating about future is is most of the time futile, let alone about the distant 100,000 years kind of future. But we can always guess and if there is science involved we even might be onto something.