Your Thoughts on the Future (keep it serious)

Let's keep this serious, if possible. List some things you think will happen in the future, I'd prefer if only people educated on possibilities would post here, not just what you think would be cool, but things that can actually happen. I'll go first...based on what I've learned in college and reading articles in my spare time.

Elimination of genetic diseases:

1. I think there's a lot of neat things over the next 10-50 years that will eliminate and reverse diseases, we've already successfully reversed and eliminated diseases with gene therapy for the last 15 years, some day with germ line therapy, we can eliminate diseases from the entire population. This conflicts with future autonomy.

Genetic Enhancement:

2. I think there's the possibilities of genetic enhancment, for 20 years they'll probably only target those who need them, but eventually they'll become available to those who can afford them, although cool, will probably increase the gap and chance the standard for what is normal.

Nanotechnology and diseases and maintaining the body:

3. I think with nanotechnology, we'll be able to do a ton of stuff - insert nano bots in the body that maintain your metabolism. This will allow for fats to be digested, a programmed wait to be maintained, health, everything, could fix up the heart or diabetes by releasing insulin, or find and destroy cancer by being programmed to target it.

Nanotechnology and cool gadgets and military:

4. Also, nanotechnology will not only lead to cool little gadgets like ipods we see now, but even bigger things - maybe nano bots will be all around light posts on streets that act as trees but are the size of a coin, yet can take in CO2 and put out O2 100x as efficient. Nanotech has already been used in suits that can make a person invisble, yes just like in crysis, they have them. A textile research lab at my college works on them. They're millions each which is why they don't give them to soldiers ... yet.

Smart Cards:

5. Technology - besidse smaller cooler stuff, touch screens, hallograms, DNA and quantum computers, and being able to travel to the moon in 30 minutes with carbon-nano tube technology (yes it's real and gonna happen), I think nanotechnology will soon take over lots of gadgets - tv's in glasses are already out, someday tv screens in contact lenses - you could live a virtual reality thru your eyes - the future of video games, or perhaps a smart card that's like a usb drive that basically has evrything on it - use it to rent a movie, pay for food, store your homework, etc.

Fusion and Fission:

6. I don't think cars will ever fly, but I'm sure a new fuel will be found - they're looking at ethanol, and battery, and combinations of the 2, as well as lithium batteries i think... maybe someday we'll figure out fusion and fision energy... that'd be nice. Space exploration will change too.

Population:

7. population - eventually the world is going to be pretty full. I think it'd be possible to create space stations, several companies have already invested millions into developing space stations (for now - tourists), maybe some day people will live on them. But what will determine who lives there? Or should we layer up from the ground?

Emotions:

8. Anyone seen the movie equilibrium? I think it could be possible someday, maybe in 200 years, let's say after a big WW3 or other nuclear war, where medications are required to eliminate/induce/supress/block/reverse hormones&genes that cause anger, hate, hostility, anxiety, revenge, fear, etc. But will it also eliminate happyness, love, sympathy, and other feelings?

Politics:

9. As the world is getting bigger, I think 1 president to run a country, even with several hundred members of congress under him/her, is just not enough. Perhaps one day political structure will be like company... a board of directors, VP's for certains areas - yes congress is already divided like that, I guess what I'm saying is it would be not only much larger with more checks, balances, do's and don'ts, but also more people at the top, rather than 1 person with many under.

Life on the Highway:

10. I watched a video 9 years ago in a mechanical drafting ****about cars being developed that would be controlled by a central computer so that people aren't driving. The goal - to eliminate accidents. The cars would lock on to magnetic stirps in the road and to eachother, you could relax in your car and read a newspaper, as your car takes you to where you want. I think this is outdate and never happened. In 2001 it said this would be out by 2009 haha. I do think it's possible for GPS to control cars, but this would require 50 years of research and perfections and lots of trial and error. Kind of like developing stop lights a 100 yrs ago.

Education:

11. The education system will change. I believe in other countries, you are not even in school for years longer, but you also take a few years off before college to serve your country - some countries require military service, some require community service for a few years. Either way, in some countries it's more common to graduate college at a much older age. But the education will also change in terms of organization. With all of hte new information (compare a biology or chemistry ****from 50 years ago to today, or even history), eventually school will take much longer complete, such as college being 8 years instead of 4 years. Also, it's possible schools will be online someday. This would eliminate teachers, save a ton of government funding - no more buildings or ****rooms, or having to pay teachers, etc.; students can learn on their own time, no school violence or school shootings, a lot of college ****s are goign to switch to online, and a lot of adults take night ****s online so that they live in one state but attend online a college in another state.

By the 1900's we eliminated infectious diseases, discovered the car, plane, and eventually space and computers.... all in 100 years. The next 100 years are going to be pretty amazing.

Just my thoughts, looking forward to reading others, unless this thread is an epic fail. These are just some things I know about or have read about or have seen in the works. There's a lot out there I don't know about.

All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.chessmaster1989

You should write a science fiction story I would read it. Oh, and watch Gattaca.

before all the futuristic stuff starts happening like nano technology, i'd like them to crack how to store hydrogen fuel efficiently, and for the masses.

Overall, I don't see the future being all that bright. It's not like I'm a pessimist either.

With the way the world economy and foreign relations are going, I don't think we'll get to another generation. I'm surprised we haven't blown each other up with these nuclear bombs that we've made and stockpiled. I see a future full of nuclear drops and an impending nuclear holocaust. Have fun while humanity lasts.

In 100 years? We came up with the wireless phones (cell phones), maybe we can make a phone thats something like in a watch. Or a chip thats in your ear and you could just say a name and it'll call the person. No need to enter a number! Just say the persons full name andyou got yourcall!

And if they dont do anything about the green-house effect, we'll all be flooded out of our homes. Or, most of us. Hopefully they will come up with a long-lasting battery for cars/trucks/vans/etc. They should trade EVERY gas-operated car for the long lasting battery. The gas is also effecting the coral in the sea, if they seriously dont do anything about this, we'll be the last generation to see the coral.

I think the future will be a dark wasteland and all tech lost.

Also, a man named Hari Seldon will invent psychohistory and will use it to formulate the Seldon Plan...chessmaster1989

I really need to read Asimov one day.

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.Rock_Dwarf

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]Also, a man named Hari Seldon will invent psychohistory and will use it to formulate the Seldon Plan...BlueBirdTS

I really need to read Asimov one day.

You really need to read it as soon as possible :P.

[QUOTE="Rock_Dwarf"][QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.brandontwb

Who said I wasn't being serious? :|

[QUOTE="BlueBirdTS"]

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]Also, a man named Hari Seldon will invent psychohistory and will use it to formulate the Seldon Plan...chessmaster1989

I really need to read Asimov one day.

You really need to read it as soon as possible :P.

I meant Asimov as in his collected works. I know that's not a book. :P

Oh, and I would personally like to see magnetic highways a la Minority Report. That is, until we invent/discover teleportation.

[QUOTE="brandontwb"][QUOTE="Rock_Dwarf"] A-MEN.chessmaster1989

Who said I wasn't being serious? :|

With the way the world economy and foreign relations are going, I don't think we'll get to another generation. I'm surprised we haven't blown each other up with these nuclear bombs that we've made and stockpiled. I see a future full of nuclear drops and an impending nuclear holocaust. Have fun while humanity lasts.

Phoenix534

[QUOTE="Phoenix534"]

With the way the world economy and foreign relations are going, I don't think we'll get to another generation. I'm surprised we haven't blown each other up with these nuclear bombs that we've made and stockpiled. I see a future full of nuclear drops and an impending nuclear holocaust. Have fun while humanity lasts.

chikinlad

Yeah, I mean what's the point, ya' know? *Puts on nihilist face*

by the way, I might update my original post up at the very top rather than posting as a new reply, i had some more "good" ideas i forgot

In 100 years? We came up with the wireless phones (cell phones), maybe we can make a phone thats something like in a watch. Or a chip thats in your ear and you could just say a name and it'll call the person. No need to enter a number! Just say the persons full name andyou got yourcall!

And if they dont do anything about the green-house effect, we'll all be flooded out of our homes. Or, most of us. Hopefully they will come up with a long-lasting battery for cars/trucks/vans/etc. They should trade EVERY gas-operated car for the long lasting battery. The gas is also effecting the coral in the sea, if they seriously dont do anything about this, we'll be the last generation to see the coral.

D0ub13_5c0r3

[QUOTE="Rock_Dwarf"][QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.brandontwb

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.Rock_Dwarf

In 100 years? We came up with the wireless phones (cell phones), maybe we can make a phone thats something like in a watch. Or a chip thats in your ear and you could just say a name and it'll call the person. No need to enter a number! Just say the persons full name andyou got yourcall!

And if they dont do anything about the green-house effect, we'll all be flooded out of our homes. Or, most of us. Hopefully they will come up with a long-lasting battery for cars/trucks/vans/etc. They should trade EVERY gas-operated car for the long lasting battery. The gas is also effecting the coral in the sea, if they seriously dont do anything about this, we'll be the last generation to see the coral.

You know what I find ironic? Teachers and parents telling us that the "Future is bright for you" and stuff like that. I personally also think that the world will end as the human population will be over-populated and the ice will melt, causing floods, killing people, terriorists launching nukes into our country and so on.

Nothing. Nothing is going to magically come about and drastically change life. If anything, we're going to face some sort of disaster. The bright, trippy future where people live for super long periods of time and there isn't any disease, its never coming. Ever. We're never going to see that paradise, because we weren't meant to. We aren't supposed to have that paradise.

This Earth, its going to be the same Earth it is now in 100 years. We're never going to cure all disease, or shrink trees, or make flying cars, or bigass freaky robots, or blow crap up with our minds, or meet aliens, or leave our solar system.

All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.chessmaster1989

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.pygmahia5

"Forget your stupid theme park! I'm gonna make my own! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the theme park!"

I love that quote so much :lol:

My thoughts? Watch Ghost in the Shell: SAC. Both seasons. They're great. It may be far off, but the descriptions of the increased globalization by use of the internet and "cyberbrains" is really amazing. The second season shows how major conflicts may not change drastically on a fundamental level. It's worth a thought. Or two seasons worth of anime. Your choice.

oh, and this:

Technology will only advance at the rate that those who stand to profit from it will allow.
See: Electric car, alternative fuel, disease cure vs medication.D3nnyCrane

that one's probably the most realistic of all future predictions. You can't make the future without money.

well one thing is for sure, in the future, false theories such as evolution will finally be dis proven. Silenthps

Okay, mate, just go on thinking that :lol:.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

well one thing is for sure, in the future, false theories such as evolution will finally be dis proven. Silenthps

That the human society I live in now will manage to keep alive with hope and in good health.

I say this because my 5 year old daughter, 10 year old son and autistic teenaged son (has his 17th B-Day tommorrow), are kind of counting on their mom and dad to keep the world a reasonably decent place to live within. I'd hate to fail them.

I have no concern about flying cars, moonbases, or the MegaSuper technologies. I want my children to have a life that has been as filled with experiences of great joy-and even some sorrow- as my wife and I have gotten to share in. None of those things had much at all to do with technology.

Perhaps if I manage to keep my kids alive and hopeful long enough, one of them might actually be the one who cures some poor aspect of human lives -for all of us.

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]All the robots will be fueled by alcohol and will be obsessed with blackjack and, especially, hookers.Rock_Dwarf

as a matter of fact, forget the blackjack!

Things that I can see actually happening

1. People being microchiped at birth: Basically our ID and bank details would be encoded onto a chip implanted at when your born. You want to pay for something, you travel, you run into trouble with the law it's all there, embedded in your body. Chances are there would also be some way of tracking people included which would cause a stir when they start chipping babies or when people find out about the tracker but in the end you only have to worry about it if you have something to hide.

2. An act of nuclear terrorism against the western world: Chances are somewhere in england or the US an entire city and hundreds of thousands of people will cease to exist. Sadly it will likely be a group of Muslim extremists end up causing untold racism and violence against their own people in the western world.

3. A real global pandemic: Not this silly swine flu but a real threat to humanity will arise from our overuse of antibiotics and antibacterial soap. Something that can actually kill a healthy person in their twenties, not just children and seniors. The populations of Asia, eastern Europe, Africa, much of South America, and central America will suffer the most.

4. WWIII: Not caused by a madman hijacking a country, nor for religious beliefs, but over resources in a world that has too little to give to too many humans.

Things that I can see actually happening

1. People being microchiped at birth: Basically our ID and bank details would be encoded onto a chip implanted at when your born. You want to pay for something, you travel, you run into trouble with the law it's all there, embedded in your body. Chances are there would also be some way of tracking people included which would cause a stir when they start chipping babies or when people find out about the tracker but in the end you only have to worry about it if you have something to hide.

2. An act of nuclear terrorism against the western world: Chances are somewhere in england or the US an entire city and hundreds of thousands of people will cease to exist. Sadly it will likely be a group of Muslim extremists end up causing untold racism and violence against their own people in the western world.

3. A real global pandemic: Not this silly swine flu but a real threat to humanity will arise from our overuse of antibiotics and antibacterial soap. Something that can actually kill a healthy person in their twenties, not just children and seniors. The populations of Asia, eastern Europe, Africa, much of South America, and central America will suffer the most.

4. WWIII: Not caused by a madman hijacking a country, nor for religious beliefs, but over resources in a world that has too little to give to too many humans.

dark_orb

and to those who said something about disasters, i agree. I can see the following being something humans face someday, might not be for hundreds or even thousands of years: sun dying, global warming, water shortage, space shortage, ice melting, epidemic diseases outbreak, nuclear war, WW3

Nothing. Nothing is going to magically come about and drastically change life. If anything, we're going to face some sort of disaster. The bright, trippy future where people live for super long periods of time and there isn't any disease, its never coming. Ever. We're never going to see that paradise, because we weren't meant to. We aren't supposed to have that paradise.

This Earth, its going to be the same Earth it is now in 100 years. We're never going to cure all disease, or shrink trees, or make flying cars, or bigass freaky robots, or blow crap up with our minds, or meet aliens, or leave our solar system.

-TheSecondSign-

The future will be dark,bleak and corrupt.Probably something along the lines of the book 1984.Then mankind will eventually destroy itself with things like nuclear war.AtomicBaconBits

I think the future will be a dark wasteland and all tech lost.

LJS9502_basic

I thought you were Christian?

[QUOTE="AtomicBaconBits"]The future will be dark,bleak and corrupt.Probably something along the lines of the book 1984.Then mankind will eventually destroy itself with things like nuclear war.ncderek

Capitalism will die. Other than that, basically it will be like Star Trek.

[QUOTE="ncderek"][QUOTE="AtomicBaconBits"]The future will be dark,bleak and corrupt.Probably something along the lines of the book 1984.Then mankind will eventually destroy itself with things like nuclear war.AtomicBaconBits