What makes you excited for the future?

The_Minister

For me it's technology - I can't wait to see where we end up.

We have floating trains, 3D-printers and ion engines already, and new things are being discovered daily.
We are going to be using Google servers to try and discover a cure for Alzeimers (sp?:o).

And then I saw this yesterday and loved it.


My father remembers a time before tv and electricity, and he can't get over technology; I remember the first home computers, and I can't wait till I'm sixty and can annoy and humiliate my grand-nephews and nieces with requests that they show me how to use the 3D porn:p

What makes you excited for the future?

(No thread-****ting please)

Brendog

I'm looking forward to 2012.
Probably the year I'll be most excited about christmas



Also a best friends bachelor party.
Las Vegas BABY!!!! WOO!:D:D:D

Celly Smunt

Brendog wrote: »

I'm looking forward to 2012.
Probably the year I'll be most excited about christmas

i'm so sorry that i have to break this news to you,i don't know how i should say this but,the world is going to end on the 21/12/2012,im terribly sorry.

chin_grin

pmcmahon wrote: »

i'm so sorry that i have to break this news to you,i don't know how i should say this but,the world is going to end on the 21/12/2012,im terribly sorry.

No it's not.

Celly Smunt

chin_grin wrote: »

No it's not.

it is,the mayans said so

Tarzan_man

Hoverboards. Thats all I ever wanted.

But seriously, when we get quantum computing perfected I can wait to see the results. I'd be in the same boat OP, technology is what I'm looking forward to the most.

mikom

pmcmahon wrote: »

it is,the mayans said so

What do they know.
If they were any good they would have seen the Spanish coming.

Celly Smunt

mikom wrote: »

What do they know.
If they were any good they would have seen the Spanish coming.

spanish are genetically tampered,they can resist all types of physical and mental penetration of their visibility to foreigners,the egyptians said so.

fonecrusher1

Can't think of anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIg2hfqhhyg

seamus

pmcmahon wrote: »

it is,the mayans said so

No they didn't. They simply designated as the start of another period of time.

All this 2012 nonsense is like looking at a clock and screaming hysteria that time is going to end when both hands get back to 12 o'clock.

I'm looking forward to cool stuff in the future, that is all. I can't imagine being as blown away by technology as my parents are, but then they may invent something completely unimaginable in the next 30 years.

Sanjuro

I like the idea of settling down and raising my own family. You know, like Charles Manson.

o1s1n

The prospect of a world free from the constraints of organized religion.

syklops

Does starting my new job in 8 weeks time count?

If not also technology in general. And medical advancements. When curing cancer will be "Take 2 of these and call me in a week or so".

Also, the SETI telescopes picking up a signal of an early television broadcast from another species, could easily happen within our lifetime.

Dancor

I'm going to be a father for the first time in October and will also be moving into my newly bought house around the same time. Busy and exciting times ahead!

Stercus Accidit

o1s1n wrote: »

The prospect of a world free from the constraints of organized religion.

Innevitable post. :rolleyes:


beat me to it

wilson10

I look forward to TV without Big Brother.

Brendog

pmcmahon wrote: »

i'm so sorry that i have to break this news to you,i don't know how i should say this but,the world is going to end on the 21/12/2012,im terribly sorry.

I don't care if the world IS going to end.


If John Cusack survived then so can I....

o1s1n

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

Innevitable post. :rolleyes:


beat me to it

I'm getting predictable in my old age

humanji

Hoverboards and that chick on Mars with three tits.

gimmick

Going home for a crafty **** before the missus comes home.

Terry

The Zeitgeist movement coming to pass. Then imploding.
Also, space tracel for the masses.

Celly Smunt

seamus wrote: »

No they didn't. They simply designated as the start of another period of time.

All this 2012 nonsense is like looking at a clock and screaming hysteria that time is going to end when both hands get back to 12 o'clock.

but i'm not being serious

starbelgrade

mikom wrote: »

What do they know.
If they were any good they would have seen the Spanish coming.

Ah, in fairness, no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

keano_afc

Our first child will be making his/her debut in November. Really cant wait.

checkyabadself

@OP, I get what you mean about your dads amazement. My girlfriends dad (71) was telling me about how in the future we'll have access to satellites and see our houses from space.
I pulled out m phone and showed him a shot of his house on gogle earth and he was literally stunned. I just thought to myself, what discovery will leave that look on my face?

I look forward to seeing people in wheelchairs walk and blind people being able to see, with the advancements of science.
I look forward to seeing separation of church and state, however long that takes.

In the immediate, insignificant enough future, I'm looking forward to seeing Valentino Rossi ride for Ducati and season 4 of Breaking Bad.

starbelgrade

2012.. the Eurocup in Poland & Ukraine. Not looking forward to the qualifying campaign though - it's bound to be as p*ss poor as most of our qualifiers, though it'd be hard to top the last one for glorious under-performances.

Brendog

I'm looking forward to 13:05

dlofnep

Space Travel for me. I want to live to be 500, just so I can see how far we go in space. Sure, the little gizmos and gadgets 50 years from now will be fun - but space travel!

Brendog

Brendog wrote: »

I'm looking forward to 13:05

WOO!

starlit

I'm fifty fifty about it, I am and I am not excited! I look forward to the new inventions and things like that but not knowing whats going to happen to this country by then its scary thinking about. The future will probably mean lots of changes....

checkyabadself

Brendog wrote: »

I'm looking forward to 13:05

How was it?

The_Minister

checkyabadself wrote: »

@OP, I get what you mean about your dads amazement. My girlfriends dad (71) was telling me about how in the future we'll have access to satellites and see our houses from space.
I pulled out m phone and showed him a shot of his house on gogle earth and he was literally stunned. I just thought to myself, what discovery will leave that look on my face?

I look forward to seeing people in wheelchairs walk and blind people being able to see, with the advancements of science.
I look forward to seeing separation of church and state, however long that takes.

In the immediate, insignificant enough future, I'm looking forward to seeing Valentino Rossi ride for Ducati and season 4 of Breaking Bad.

I had that already when I discovered that we had FLOATING TRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was there like, "wtf?! No-one mentioned this before?"

Kanoe

might sound weird and not trying to be selfish but patiently waiting for young un to head to uni so I can get out and travel and see a bit of the world.

token56

I am looking forward to see exactly what we will do with nanotechnology.

Also things like gene therapy maybe, and just the inevitable new medical treatments that are going to arrive at some stage.