Ah, the future. What marvels does it hold for us all? Will it be a glorious new golden age for humanity? Or perhaps the bane of us all? Those two will probably take a while to happen, but a lot of things can happen. Perhaps not in 3 years from now. But something will happen at least. What will really happen is up for speculation. So hey, let's speculate.

Okay, let's say that we, in our society, continue to advance in the technological pace we're in right now. What will it lead us in the span of 3 years? By looking at the latest cutting edge technology one could say that within three years, plasma TVs will become a commonplace in every normal house, since the prices continues to go downwards to make them affordable by everyone. The same would probably be for bigger sound systems. (But after seeing my dad almost getting grey hair when installing it I'm hoping they will make it easier in the future.) Otherwise one could guess that dual-core computers become more and more common as their prices continue to go down. Then I would guess that Solid-state drives (More or less flash drives but bigger) will start to get a bit more available at cheaper prices. (Current price is around 5,000 USD for a 128gig Solid-state drive.) Otherwise we can probably see even more miniaturization in the mobile phone field and the phones themselves getting more and advanced and filled with technical doodads. Whatever happened to the phone you just used for calls and messages? I almost whish they came back. Because I barely use any of the supposedly cool and awesome features on my cellphone. I use it for calls, sending messages and sometimes accessing the schedule over the internet, and at random times snapping off pictures with the camera. That's about it really. The rest of the stuff I don't really need. But I digress. Someone maybe uses which makes it valid to have. They should really make a simpler mobile phone called iEasy or something. Just have the basic functions and nothing more. I remember reading some news a year ago or so about that they actually made such a phone for the Japanese market because the current ones became just too advanced for their own good. Build me an iEasy phone and I'd buy one actually.

Honestly I don't think anything really major will happen in the next three years. Sure we'll see some improvements to things, like cellphones and computers, and probably some interesting new gadgets from Apple, who seem to be really on top on that, if you discount the fact that they seem to be spitting out iPods at an increasing rate. But then again, with the rate of them breaking down it is hardly that surprising. Coupled with the abject fanaticism of their fans they probably have their future set for the time being.

What else can we speculate about? Will the biochip technology be commonplace in three years? I myself doubt that really, since I don't think we've really reached that stage of miniaturization for that thing to be able to happen. Maybe well see breakthrough in the field of cybernetic prosthetics and so, making arms look even more lifelike and act like a normal hand. But bio-computers and turning us into cyborgs is at least 10 years into the future. Robotics and AI is almost the same, despite the advances that have occurred in the last couple of years I don't really think we'll be seeing that many robots in our daily lives in three years. If so I almost hope they've managed to deal with the Uncanny valley syndrome regarding robots and them looking like humans. Otherwise we'll be having creepy crawlies every time we try to interact with the robots of the future. Either that or making them look like robots instead of humans. Not that it matters anyway, since they'll probably end up enslaving us all and take over the world... If you'll excuse me, I need to reread "How to survive a robot uprising."