2019

Proxy

The last week i've been seeing the "Best of the Decade" lists popping up here and there, and got me to thinking about how I felt about the end of the millennium in 1999.

Amazing to think in the last ten years, just things like

• (not only mobile phones) but mobile internet,
• touch screens,
• wifi networks in every house/apartment,
• HD TV/DVD,
• online social networking,
• YouTube!,
• interfaces like the Nintendo Wii, massively user generated web content,

all not just risen but actually commonplace. Makes me wonder (and really, REALLY look forward to) what will be in 2019.

So, two questions;

1) What has come to fruition, technologically or in any field, in the last decade that has interested or impressed you the most?
2) What do you think is possible in the next decade?

Could go either way. Discussed with my friend over the possibility of either massively fast technological advancement, or a World War.

super_furry

Dust and rock. Haven't you see 2012 yet? We're fooked.

Proxy

Arah bollocks to that Mayan calendar rubbish. It doesn't "end", they just stopped the calendar. I could look at my calendar on the wall right now and not think the world stopped on December 31st.

But I am glad that John Cusack will still be around in 2012 at the very least.

phasers

I think dinosaurs will come back, but as, like, SUPER dinosaurs?

Dudess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5x3J_cHqe8

stovelid

Trucks that fight each other.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Hell, DVDs were still quite novel in 1999. I'm looking forward to all the robot dogs and everyone dressing in silver.

Dudess

Proxy wrote: »

The last week i've been seeing the "Best of the Decade" lists popping up here and there, and got me to thinking about how I felt about the end of the millennium in 1999.

Amazing to think in the last ten years, just things like

• (not only mobile phones) but mobile internet,
• touch screens,
• wifi networks in every house/apartment,
• HD TV/DVD,
• online social networking,
• YouTube!,
• interfaces like the Nintendo Wii, massively user generated web content,

all not just risen but actually prolific. Makes me wonder (and really, REALLY look forward to) what will be in 2019.

Actually I don't think 2009 is "sci fi" enough - thought we'd be living on Mars by now... or we'd at least have flying cars. :mad:

994

So nothing relevant occurred apart from a few gadgets?

phasers

Derek Shaggy Clothesline wrote: »

Hell, DVDs were still quite novel in 1999. I'm looking forward to all the robot dogs and everyone dressing in silver.

welcome to 1977

giggsy664

Phone watches.
iPods with 1TB of memory.
iPod Shuffles with 400GB
3D gaming on even the 2019 Wii equivalent

And someone will bomb the Russian Oil Pipeline
It'll happen eventually tbh...

Home electricity storage systems, so you can run your home from any elictrical source - ESB, wind solar etc

Essential if wind turbines are ever going to really work!

Senna

I really though Virtual Reality would be prolific by now. The "Tomorrows World" was full of crap.

opinion guy

Isn't the Large Hadron Recession thingy ma bob gonna kill us all before then?

That's if the rain doesn't drown us all. I'm starting work on my Ark. Oh and a beard

Dudess

The concept of "virtual reality" even seems retro - I associate it with circa 1992. Ditto holograms.

Sharpshooter

Dudess wrote: »

Actually I don't think 2009 is "sci fi" enough - thought we'd be living on Mars by now... or we'd at least have flying cars. :mad:

They predicted so much and let us down, flying cars would be awesome.:D

"I won't be long, just flying down to the shops".:pac:

4zn76tysfajdxp

Dudess wrote: »

Actually I don't think 2009 is "sci fi" enough - thought we'd be living on Mars by now... or we'd at least have flying cars. :mad:

We still have just over five years for the events of Back To The Future II to come true.

Derek Shaggy Clothesline

Derek Shaggy Clothesline wrote: »

Hell, DVDs were still quite novel in 1999. I'm looking forward to all the robot dogs and everyone dressing in silver.

Nothing new there!

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/plus/dt/ufo/ufo_controlspheremonitor.jpg

phasers

giggsy664 wrote: »

Phone watches.

These are readily available online

Get with the times!

Sharpshooter

Sharpshooter wrote: »

They predicted so much and let us down, flying cars would be awesome.:D

"I won't be long, just flying down to the shops".:pac:

I'm so glad they haven't, just look at how some people drive on the ground!!

AlmightyCushion

A kettle with wifi built in so I can hook it up to my network and boil it remotely from anywhere in the world as long as I have an internet connection. Imagine being able to boil your kettle a minute or two before you get home from work so you can have a nice cup of tea when you get home without waiting for it to boil.

Senna

giggsy664 wrote: »

iPods with 1TB of memory.
iPod Shuffles with 400GB

Do they really discover how to fit 8gb in an Ipod one day then 6 months later they discover how to fit 16gb?
I would say they could put a TB in an Ipod now, but why would they, consumers wouldn't be going out to buy the bigger one a year later.

Proxy

Ah, it's nice to have that minute of boiling the kettle, the water making the slight grumble to the surging rumbling and steaming... time to reflect. (I'm from Galway, we get poetic about the slightest thing...)

Anyway - no i'm not saying the only thing relevant was gadgets, but that's just what I pointed out myself... cause i'm a nerd.

Dudess

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm so glad they haven't, just look at how some people drive on the ground!!

But you could fly over and under people, rather than risk overtaking.

AlmightyCushion

Senna wrote: »

Do they really discover how to fit 8gb in an Ipod one day then 6 months later they discover how to fit 16gb?
I would say they could put a TB in an Ipod now, but why would they, consumers wouldn't be going out to buy the bigger one a year later.

The wouldn't be able to fit in a terrabyte but they could fit in more than 8GBs if they liked. The reason they don't is that flash memory is pricey. Adding a load of storage to it would increase the price and no-one would buy them or at least not as many.

mikom

Proxy wrote: »

What has come to fruition, technologically or in any field, in the last decade that has interested or impressed you the most?

The apple tree in my back garden.

Bajingo

Dudess wrote: »

The concept of "virtual reality" even seems retro - I associate it with circa 1992. Ditto holograms.

Holograms are pretty awesome to be fair..just not widely used..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPOqWPlw1yE

Leprachaun

Cloud networking.

PC's being phased out.

Big emphasis on portable devices.

Smart Homes.

Should be some big medical advances(nanobots etc..) and hopefully robotics will start coming into play properly towards the end of the next decade.

I can see hybrid cars becoming more popular aswell.

3D will be the next 'HD' for a few years,if it doesn't turn out to be too gimicky this time round.

Digital download / streaming will replace dvds and bluerays completely in the next few years.

I'd say we'll have 1TB broadband by 2019 too.


2029: You'll have your robot sex dolls,virtual reality and hover cars by then. :cool:

opinion guy

Senna wrote: »

Do they really discover how to fit 8gb in an Ipod one day then 6 months later they discover how to fit 16gb?
I would say they could put a TB in an Ipod now, but why would they, consumers wouldn't be going out to buy the bigger one a year later.

Um yeah that's kinda how it works. Its a bit more complicated than that to do with materials and critical dimensions and new manfucaturing techniques, but in summary yeah your description is accurate. What did you think happened - decoded from the bible ???


Holograms are still a young technology - you'll be seeing a lot mroe of them in future and they'll have lots more techy appiclations too (data storage for one)

Dudess

Dudess wrote: »

But you could fly over and under people, rather than risk overtaking.

Overtaking and undertaking!

Insurance claim wrote:

I was jusd flyng down to the shops from 250m AGL when I hit an undertaker flying at 245m AGL, I didn't see him!

mikom

So true......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJjUVIIYptE

Proxy

mikom wrote: »

So true......

That is such a depressing video...

Bajingo

Bajingo wrote: »

Holograms are pretty awesome to be fair..just not widely used..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPOqWPlw1yE

How they did it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zR2nDdzYM

Senna

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The wouldn't be able to fit in a terrabyte but they could fit in more than 8GBs if they liked. The reason they don't is that flash memory is pricey. Adding a load of storage to it would increase the price and no-one would buy them or at least not as many.

Maybe not a TB, but considering they are bringing out a 64gb SD card and a 32gb Mini SD card soon, i reckon Apple (and all makers of drive, cards etc) could put loads more storage in for very little extra cost to them, but again why would they, the explanation of technology and costs are bollóx. Whats the largest ipod at the moment 120gb?

triple-M

:Dthe virtual girlfriend from the 6th day film,fingers crossed they'll invent it soon enough

WoollyRedHat

Why must the world constantly change. I'm quite happy with the way things are. After all, eventually humans will be too clever for their own good with technological advances eventually obliterating us.


Who is to say the robot servants of the future won't malfuction and turn on us?
I'm quite happy with the ways things are without having to worry abouta crazy robot house trying to kill me.

weeder

• not only mobile phones
• touch screens,
• interfaces like the Nintendo Wii

you do realise these things came BEFORE 1999 right?

jumpguy

Space tourism will be as common as snow holidays...


I hope.

netwhizkid

wi-tricity will be something we will see alot more of in the coming decade.

Proxy

weeder wrote: »

• not only mobile phones
• touch screens,
• interfaces like the Nintendo Wii

[you do realise these things came BEFORE 1999 right?

Course. Then I said "all not just risen but actually prolific". Touchscreens came around in the late 1960's, but were obviously never really prolific. My point is these things are now - so recently - commonplace.

Bonito

super_furry wrote: »

Dust and rock. Haven't you see 2012 yet? We're fooked.

TBH that technology and *arks* that look like spaceships look alot more futuristic than 2012

Has anyone rang China to enquire about free passes :pac:

Wossack

I've started hoarding dog food already, in anticipation of a Mad Max style global collapse

andrew

Finger's crossed they get Nuclear Fusion working on a feasible scale.

enniscorthy

LOOKING FORWARD TO RE-RELEASE OF 'HEY BABY'

token56

Whats to come, just a few random things maybe

• Ultra High Def TV and sound
• Monopolisation of the Internet
• Majority of music being digitally downloaded for free legally
• Holagrams e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3seTlvQtIgc
• Photo realistic gaming
• Controllerless gaming, see Microsofts profect natal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qlHoxPioM
• Universal Radio/Software Defined Radio/Cognitive Radio etc
• Emergence of nanotechnology hopefully in medicine, maybe
• Photonic Computing, doubtful
• Quantum Computing, ah this wont be anywhere near developed for decades more probably
• Digital Paper

So much more probably

Bonito

Not 2019 but 2010/2011 3D televisions will be released

And for Ireland Harvey Normans has full rights to distribution of them

(anyone smell PROFIT or is it just me?:D)

opinion guy

Bonito wrote: »

(anyone smell PROFIT or is it just me?:D)

anyone smell even more annyoing ad's on the radio ?

opinion guy

opinion guy wrote: »

anyone smell even more annyoing ad's on the radio ?

"GO! HARVEY! GO! Go, Go for fcuks sake!

Black_Knight

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

A kettle with wifi built in so I can hook it up to my network and boil it remotely from anywhere in the world as long as I have an internet connection. Imagine being able to boil your kettle a minute or two before you get home from work so you can have a nice cup of tea when you get home without waiting for it to boil.

Kinda like the readywhenUR kettle.

Proxy

Kinda like the readywhenUR kettle.

To be honest, I don't see the benefit in these gadgets. They're frivalities; they serve no great purpose or generally lead to greater things. Maybe small parts in a bigger puzzle I suppose but... Opportunism for profit or whatever.

AlmightyCushion

Black_Knight wrote: »

Kinda like the readywhenUR kettle.

SMS? What is this the fecking 90's. No it needs to have wifi or some form of network connection (though wifi would be best). That way you could install linux on it and use it as a web host. Who hasn't looked at a kettle and thought, "Damn, this thing would be so much handier if I could host websites on it or use it as an FTP server". My mum says that at least 10 times a day and she gets scared when ever someone uses a calculator around her.

Everything should have a network connection. How annoying is it when you wake up and the room is cold because you haven't set the heating right. Just use your wifi enabled phone to access your radiator and turn it on. Same with your car on a cold morning. Have it heated up and ready to go without even leaving your bed.

Ever have a **** that takes a couple of flushes. You have to wait around until you can flush again. Or just go back to what you were doing and every few minutes remotely flush your toilet from your laptop.

The possibilities are endless.