[Freddio]

Just curious on what you think the future (say next 100 years) will hold in regards to,

technology (computing)
travel (cars/planes/space)
life style
medicine
etc..

post any links to predictions and other cool material..

I just find it interesting, I wonder how far off somthing like minority report is.

[f3nce]

Sir Arthur C. Clarke said that technology progresses so fast that 30 years into the future, everyday things are as mysterious as magic to present man.

Computers are prediected to be omniscent by 2050 on microprocessors alone, according to Moore's Law, which recently had to be amended to doubling processor speeds every 12 months. 50 years after that, I imagine that every thing we touch will be able to send us spam, but it also means that huge advances in science will be made.

I predict the beginning of nanotechnology. I see artificial intelligence. Cancer is no more. Robotic mechanisms are much more advanced.

Nuclear weapon proliferation has been wiped out.

Health care is socialized in America and other major countries.

Space exploration is done with robots, not with men and women.

We're all vegan, subsisting on genetically engineered soy.

We'll be using a new, hyper-efficient type of energy. It's not that hard to imagine, if you consider the fact that nuclear energy is around 45 years old, and the combustion engine is about twice as old as that. Considering that, it should bring us up to a type 1 civilization, measured by our total energy output.

Maybe we'll see something like the Matrix? A super-realistic computer program where you can deathmatch to your heart's content.

Physics will have unimaginable new theories.

Religion will be much less prominent than it is today.

We'll be less susceptible to climatic changes.

Broadcast TV is long extinct.

Hardcopy books are now a piece of history.

All of our mining is done on asteroids. It is predicted that a 1 km long metallic asteroid is worth about $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion).

Our air will be much cleaner, as carcinogen-loaded fossil fuels go the way of, well, the dinosaurs. Again.

The computer that sits in front of you will be a relic, a piece that belongs in the museum.

Art will be immersive. You can walk into a painting at the Lourve, thanks to that ominscent processor speed.

The average lifespan in America will be something like, 130.

Quebec will threaten to break away from Canada and form their own miniature France.

Third-world countries will get left in the muck, borrowing technology that they're not quite ready for, ending in limitless feuds.

We will generate much less refuse.

Cloning becomes much more advanced, and much more dangerous.

[Pat]

I predict there will still be flamewars on the internet. But all arguments will no longer end with Hitler; instead it will be Lee Kwan, Croteus or Maltuvis of Regula IX.

-Pat

[Sharper-Image]

I believe Dhabih will finally post again at Sijun. Then he'll die in a freak camel accident.

[Rat]

quote:

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Originally posted by f3nce:
Quebec will threaten to break away from Canada and form their own miniature France.

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They already tried that. And failed.

[Sharper-Image]

Yea, Rat's right. Now Quebec doesn't even exist in the minds of most Canadians. And that's the way it should be. Quewho?

[Effigy]

Quantum computing and quantum parallelism are probably the next 'big' milestones, well, more likely than time travel.

Although as time goes by, it seems a little more possible, or at least, there are more theories now than there have ever been.

What's really annoying is that I'll and we'll all be dead and won't see a lot of the cool things that will happen, kinda feels like we're living in a bit of a 'modern stone age'

[Minefield]

overpopulation, pollution, new diseases, bio warfare, advances in military technology, certain resources are getting rare on this planet... sorry, but i just cannot see much good about the future. of course there will be technological advances. i just think that as the scale of everything gets bigger and bigger, it's not only the good things that get better, bad things get worse.

[[666]Flat]

quote:

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Originally posted by f3nce:
I predict the beginning of nanotechnology. I see artificial intelligence. Cancer is no more. Robotic mechanisms are much more advanced.

Nuclear weapon proliferation has been wiped out.

Health care is socialized in America and other major countries.

Space exploration is done with robots, not with men and women.

We're all vegan, subsisting on genetically engineered soy.

We'll be using a new, hyper-efficient type of energy. It's not that hard to imagine, if you consider the fact that nuclear energy is around 45 years old, and the combustion engine is about twice as old as that. Considering that, it should bring us up to a type 1 civilization, measured by our total energy output.

Maybe we'll see something like the Matrix? A super-realistic computer program where you can deathmatch to your heart's content.

Physics will have unimaginable new theories.

Religion will be much less prominent than it is today.

We'll be less susceptible to climatic changes.

Broadcast TV is long extinct.

Hardcopy books are now a piece of history.

All of our mining is done on asteroids. It is predicted that a 1 km long metallic asteroid is worth about $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion).

Our air will be much cleaner, as carcinogen-loaded fossil fuels go the way of, well, the dinosaurs. Again.

The computer that sits in front of you will be a relic, a piece that belongs in the museum.

Art will be immersive. You can walk into a painting at the Lourve, thanks to that ominscent processor speed.

The average lifespan in America will be something like, 130.

Quebec will threaten to break away from Canada and form their own miniature France.

Third-world countries will get left in the muck, borrowing technology that they're not quite ready for, ending in limitless feuds.

We will generate much less refuse.

Cloning becomes much more advanced, and much more dangerous.

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I concur...


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... while pointing out the entire fucking human race is gonna be way too fucking dead until all that happens because our planet is already fucked up for good, dammit!

I see pain and suffering in the future, probably including the involvement of reruns of the "Golden Girls" sitcom.

("King of Queens" is kinda funny though. But that's another story.)

[Gort]

Andy Griffith reruns will still be going strong.

[Coaster]

..because even the weekest of humans will still be able to reproduce.

I agree with Effigy, either that or a 'protein resequencer'.

Its probably more like 200 hundred years, but I sure hope they teraform Mars, there is water there. It would be easy to start growing massive forests here and there near melted water resevoirs. Humans are going to need a new planet to trash sooner or later. Either that or we'll all rush for the soylent green. 12 light minutes away from earth would make for a bad internet connection though.

[[Shizo]]

technology (computing) - becomes a part of human life exponentially more widely used than cars, TV, phones and all other major inventions of human past.
Will play the biggest role in further development (and possibly end to human civilization).

travel (cars/planes/space) - earthly transport will be less needed, but will have some major inventions in safer and faster directions. Space technology will possibly increase, as people will try to settle on other planets or something.

life style - like someone said before: brain in a pot with wires sticking out of it.

medicine - will get better.. nothing major but similar to Brave New World (who wants to live forever?)

The book Brave New World describes some possibility of future society, but ofcourse the view of the future will change.. in future

[Drunken Monkey]

Duke Nukem Forever will still be under development using the latest hottest 3D engine.

[gigatron]

Hmm most ppl are talking "Technology" .. no one is considering helping poor nations, in fact one of you mentioned '3rd world countries being swallowed' (relatively speaking) err.. man You are such teh evil people! WORLD PEACE WORLD PEACE!! lol :P

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[XandGash]

Every disase will be cured and most crimes will be stopped, causing the population of earth to grow so much that we resort to mass murder and cannibalism. We'll regress to our base instincts and start all over, allowing the earth to heal itself a bit.

[J Bradford]

Maybe we'll de-evolve so the animals and plants can have the earth back again.

[f3nce]

Eh. They haven't quite proved that there's water on Mars yet, Coaster. The moon is your moneyshot. There are ice lakes all over that mofo.

I don't see any immediate doom for mankind any time soon, to all of you doomsayers. Our reproduction rate is simply too high for extinction, which is probably why we've survived and multiplied so well in the first place. But, anything could happen, I suppose.

[Coaster]

Actually there is some water at the ice caps. I'll dig up the article.

[Giant Hamster]

I believe that the future will be the same letdown as it was in the past.(Is the previous sentance even grammatically correct?)

Remember somewhere between 1950 and 1999?: "The years 2000 and 2001...Flying cars, space-age metallic clothing, teleporters, starfleets circling the galaxy, California breaking off from the USA and drifting into the ocean, Levetating Japanese people who throw fireballs and can change their hair color by becoming enraged, jetpacks for sale at Wal-Mart, Every building shaped like the Seattle tower, run down cities where endless raves, vampires, and men in colored tights that fly, swing and run really really fast, a space oddessy, apes rule the world, aliens from another dimension assault the earth, and police carry humane stun-batons.

Not to mention that the world has supposedly come to an end over 25 times.

What will the future hold?

"Nightmare on Elm Street 67: Geriatric violence"

"Jason X2 R Turbo: Back from hell, 6 deaths, space, and the bathroom, to kill you again!"

"If I Still remember right, didn't you and I have some kind of conflic a few summers ago?"

"Superbowl MXXXVII"

The very innovative, "Turkey Pepsi" and much awaited, "Dr.placenta" from the makers of "Cheddar Mr.Sprite".

"JOLT!" now with x12 the Caffiene!!!!!!!!

"New Vacation Porn: First it was just penises, then i t was a finger, and then fingers, and then toes, and then dildos, and then vibrators, and then even bigger dildos, and then entire fists, and then entire feet, and then all the way up past the elbow, and then even someones entire head...but now we can fit you all the way inside the anus! Get a 3 day getaway ticket to travel up the hershey highway or up the vagina! See child birth first hand! eat a fallopian tube and wash it down with some Plecenta Dr.Pepper� as you masturbate in the colon!"

That's what the future holds.

[Freddio]

umm er yea cool..

though I dont know about that last bit :/

[micke]

Arthur C. Clarke is a Pedophile twat

[Dr. Bang]

technology (computing) ----> porn
travel (cars/planes/space) -----> sex
life style -----> hot sweaty sex
medicine ----> sex enhancer
etc.. -----> sex

[Effigy]

beginning to wear a little thin now bang

[f3nce]

He sure is, micke. But he was still right when he said that.

[elam]

Massive forests on Mars? Easy?
I doubt it. Not unless we invent a way to create an atmosphere and move a planet a couple of million miles closer to the sun.

Terraforming is fiction(so far).

It would be easier to grow them in space.

There's probably going to be a massive thinning of the human race due to shrinking resources and more and more people.

We'll all be Taliban living in the stone age in 100 years. Whee.

[v1510nAry]

technology - We will underwear which is clean 24/7 we can piss and shit in are pants and it clean is self.. with little tiny robots.

travel - we won't travel to meet, see, or speak to people. We will live a life of a obesesity, sitting by the pc 24/7 talking to people

life style - Junk Food Corps have taken over the world.

medicine - cure for cancer, aids and anything which pisses people off.

[mannela]

Yeah, sure technology gets better but there will be also a lot more people in this planet which means a lot more pressure and a lot more pain, it's the rich that'll get richer and poor..., none cares as long as they got it going fine.
In certain point the pressure this planet can bear gets too high and human kind will be decreased. I can relate this to the life cycle of animals in areas they get too populated and will destroy eachothers or nature will destroy them in order to survive.

�nyway, I'll be dead then so it doesn't matter for my existence. But I'm still quite worried of all this shit. People need more understanding instead of knowledge and power.

[social drone]

WWIV will be fought over spring water

flying cars will be outlawed untill people make crash proof buildings

i predict a childrens civil rights movement

novelty toys from japan will alow dogs to talk

everyone will have a shaved head and a haldol drip implanted in their perineum.

[XandGash]

Wars will be fought via massively multiplayer online battle sims.

[Coaster]

Xand, there was an episode of star trek like that. If you died, you had to be killed by the people staging the war.

OMFG!!!111 WAL HAX)R!!11